Mason Andrew Hamberlin

Mason Andrew Hamberlin is a queer writer, editor, bookseller, trash kid, and MFA candidate at the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program. Their work appears in Ninth Letter, the Adroit Journalthe Boiler, Voicemail PoemsDuendeVIATOR, and others. They live and teach in Iowa City—though Chapel Hill, North Carolina will always be home. Say hi on Instagram @definitely_not_mason.

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On Loving Straw Men

Mason Andrew Hamberlin  | 
Issue 70.1 Fall 2021

C onway, South Carolina is kind of the opposite of a miracle. It’s where air is synonymous with insects and water. It’s a fifty-mile snake that starts at a place of prayer—a diner, a stoplight, a gas station bathroom, maybe even a church—and folds back and forth across cornfields and crows and burnt barns long […]