Creative Nonfiction

  • East of Aztlán

    East of Aztlán

    An essay that won the Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award and was published in Vol. 93, No. 2 of the same magazine After Elissa Washuta Every morning, I use my grandmother’s coffee pot.  Wait, no, that doesn’t sound quite right.  Let’s start this again.  I still own my grandmother’s coffee pot, a stainless-steel 12-cup electric

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  • Ovis Dalli

    Ovis Dalli

    My first published essay, originally appearing in Entropy Mag in 2018. In the basement of my grandparents’ rural Ohio home, back when it was still their home, a dall ram was mounted on the wall opposite the couch in the basement living room. Dall sheep only live in the northwestern portions of Canada and in

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