San Antonio Review (Issue Two, Winter 2019)

We are San Antonio's international literary journal.

We often hear that San Antonio is a "city on the rise." In truth, as the seventh largest city in the nation, and one already reflecting the demographic shift the rest of the country will experience in the coming years, San Antonio is already a world-class city. The diversity of its community puts it on par with the first six metropolitan areas by population. Beyond its diversity, San Antonio is home to world-renowned cultural and educational institutions.

Nonetheless, it's important we not miss the importance of the letters and art that influence the city and emanate from it. The arts -- letters not least among them -- are integral to any city.

The San Antonio Review aims to provide readers with a critical, trusted resource for cultural criticism, reviews of cultural events, poetry, fiction and other items as we see fit for sharing with the wider public.

Indeed, it is our intention that the words and art published in these pages reach an audience far beyond the borders of San Antonio--beyond even Texas. We are San Antonio's international literary journal.

William O. Pate II has written and published on the Internet since 1997 at inadequate.net. His projects include: editing and publishing the San Antonio Review (founded in 2017), serving as the marketing department for a national legal technology company, creating designs for T-shirts and other products at 787atx.me, curating Texas Freedom Network's Daily News Clips, releasing monthly mixes of new music on his site, hanging out at Austin coffee shops daily with his wife and dogs, among other things.

San Antonian Alex Z. Salinas earned a bachelor's degree in political science from St. Mary's University in 2011. His flash fiction has appeared online in Every Day Fiction, Nanoism, escarp, 101 Words, 101 Fiction, and ZeroFlash. He has also had poetry published in the San Antonio Express-News. His first book of poetry is forthcoming from Hekate Publishing. He is the San Antonio Review's poetry editor.

Gianna Sannipoli is a native of California, most recently living in Texas. She is currently studying in Brno, Czech Republic. She has studied at Texas State University and the University of Bologna. Her work has been published in Gold Dust Magazine, One Sentence Poems, and is forthcoming in Edify Fiction and Panoply.