Tahoma Literary Review : Issue 24 (Spring 2023)

Our spring 2023 issue of Tahoma Literary Review has twenty-eight original works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Explore the creative work of Elena M. Aponte, Mark Bessen, Jennifer Blackman, Ayn Carrillo-Gailey, Michael Czyzniejewski, Kalila Holt, Julia Halprin Jackson, Jesse Salvo, April Meredith Thompson, Yunya Yang, Amber Blaeser-Wardzala, Allison Blevins & Joshua Davis, Naihobe González, David McDannald, Caite McNeil, Shannon Huffman Polson, Lisbeth White, William Archila, Demetrius Buckley, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Lisa Beech Hartz, Luke Johnson, Jill Kitchen, Konstantin Kulakov, Nathan Manley, Dion O'Reilly, Sherre Vernon Tahoma Literary Review publishes original fiction, nonfiction, and poetry twice a year.

Mare Heron Hake, Poetry Editor is a published poet, essayist, book reviewer, and photographer. She earned her MFA from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts, where she worked with David Wagoner, Carolyne Wright, Derek Sheffield, and Ana Maria Spagna, among others. Mare was the poetry editor at Soundings Review and is a founder of The Red House Writers group. She has been known to spend many lost hours writing to friends or reading gothic horror while the family dog, asleep and snoring, uses her foot as a pillow. Her poetry books are Survival Eye (2021) and Passages (2022).

Ann Beman, Nonfiction Editor, was longtime nonfiction editor of The Los Angeles Review, and currently serves on the executive board of directors for Red Hen Press. She earned her MFA from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts. Her work has appeared in DIAGRAM, Hippocampus Magazine, Mojave River Review, Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, and Canoe Journal, among others. She lives in California's Sierra Nevada with two whatchamaterriers, a chihuahua, and her husband, on the Kern River, in Kern County. Cue the banjos.

Leanne Dunic, Fiction Editor As a biracial, bisexual woman, Leanne has spent her life navigating liminal spaces, inspiring her to produce trans-media projects such as To Love the Coming End (Book*hug/Chin Music Press 2017) and The Gift (Book*hug 2019). Leanne is the fiction mentor at Simon Fraser University's The Writer's Studio and is an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia. Her lyric memoir One and Half of You is forthcoming with Talonbooks February 2021. Leanne strongly encourages submissions from voices not typically heard, including writers who are Black, Indigenous, People of Colour, LGBTQIA+, Disabled, and Neurodiverse. She is the leader of the music band The Deep Cove, and lives on the unceded and occupied traditional territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh people.