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Letter from the Fiction Editor

Fiction Issue #3: Pain Continued December 31st, 2019 December 31st, 2019 Letter from the Fiction Editor: Shared Experiences by AM Larks was 11 years old when my aunt, who was 32 at the time, was diagnosed with brain cancer. It was the afternoon, a few hours before her rehearsal dinner, and the day before her wedding to her high-school sweetheart. I was playing in a big white tent, chasing my two-year-old brother underneath the tables and ...

Letter from the Fiction Editor

Fiction Issue #2: Pain September 19th, 2019 September 19th, 2019 Letter from the Fiction Editor: Art and the Universality of Pain by AM Larks “Pain doesn’t have a face and pain doesn’t have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal.” —Aunjanue Ellis While everyone else was still sleeping off the revelry that accompanied the last days of 2008, I was at the Getty with my future husband. I walked through the exhibits more quickly than Mark, who ...

Letter from the Editor

Editorial Issue #2: Pain September 19th, 2019 September 19th, 2019 Letter from the Editor: Caring for One Another by Tracy Granzyk ’m encouraged to report that in only our second issue, our submissions have tripled. I can’t help but wonder if this issue’s theme of Pain is what drew so many people in. We chose this theme believing we would receive work that relieved suffering through art, work that assured readers they were not alone in their ...

PSM Talks with Alex Kotlowitz

Interview Issue #2: Pain September 19th, 2019 September 19th, 2019 “Storytelling: An Act of Hope”: PSM Talks with Alex Kotlowitz by Tracy Granzyk lex Kotlowitz’s An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago might be considered a bookend to a 40-year career writing about the violence and the communities affected by it. In An American Summer he returns to the neighborhoods and relationships forged while writing There Are No Children Here, published in 1991 and named one ...

Letter from the Nonfiction Editor

Nonfiction Issue #2: Pain September 19th, 2019 September 19th, 2019 Letter from the Nonfiction Editor: Writing Through the Pain by Grace Jasmine ain is a heavy subject. It is fraught with emotion, with drama, with real-life tragedy and hardship. It is an especially difficult subject to edit—but even more so, it is a terribly difficult subject about which to write. However, in this section, you will meet eight women of fortitude and courage, a tribe of unrelated but ...