The personal narratives in this issue cover a wide range of territory. Irix Anixter, Sarah Doudna, and Matthue Roth contributed pieces that could form a Venn diagram of mother-child relationships and the resulting impact on the lives and career aspirations of modern women. CJ Giroux and Norman T. Leonard, respectively, zero in on the power of place and the rollercoaster ramifications of living with depression. Finally, Benjamin Harnett gives us a tale of a woman navigating sexual harrassment in, of all places, a museum archive, while exploring the power of new technology to capture her desires. As always, each narrative offers a powerful and unique voice. 

 

In addition to thanking our dedicated editors Voichita Nachescu and Julie Wilkerson, I would personally like to thank my husband, Colin Grubel, for his contributions to this issue. He helped me greatly with sorting through submissions when I stepped in at the proverbial last minute to serve as interim memoirs and poetry editor. I was also happy that we could extend our collaboration in the form of his serving as guest arts editor for this issue, to which he lent his photographs to accompany the five feature pieces. You can read more about his art selections here. 

 

Finally, many thanks to the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (clmp), for their support of this issue in the form of a New York Technical Assistance Program regrant provided by the New York State Council on the Arts.