75.2 Spring 2026

Listen, my beloveds—go outside, lift your chin, raise your chest. You won’t melt. You aren’t made of sugar.

“Late Bloomer,” 2023. Handwoven cotton, wool, acrylic (21 parts total). 90 x 138.5 inches, Paolo Arao. (Photo: Cary Whittier)

Issue Masthead

Editor-in-Chief
Beth Staples
Fiction Editor
Frederica Morgan Davis
Creative Nonfiction Editor
DW McKinney
Editorial Fellow in Comics
Robert James Russell
Editorial Fellow in Poetry
Samyak Shertok
Blog Editor
Chase Isbell
Art Editor
Sarah Audsley
Managing Editor
Charity Corman
Special Features Editor
Nadeen Kharputly
Teaching Assistants
Alexa De La Cruz Cisneros, Nora Jacobson, Grace Lorenz
Social Media Managers
Kate Keeley, Alyssa Sanchez-Sine
Interns
Kaia Beddows, Katherine Bowen, Chappell Carter, Mabry Cook, Lucy Gates, Kenneth George, Paige Jackson, Nora Kuhn, Anna Maloof, Geena Ravelo Cepero, Arhana Sethi