CONTENTS
Judge’s Essay on the Jacob Zilber Prize by Mercedes Eng
part i: flora & fauna
“At the Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park” by Zhang Ruihe
“The Great Minnesota Get-Together” by Ginger Ayla
“TAINTED” by Jewo Oghenetega
“Downstairs the Ocean” by Clara Pratt
“Confined to her Seabed, Ariel Considers the Abled World” by Hannah Siden
“SNOW WHITE / FINAL GIRLS” by MICHAEL CHANG
“Lizard Man” by Miguel da Ponte
“The Dolphin” by Anastasios Mihalopoulos
“Hydra Vulgaris, the Freshwater Polyp” by Rocco de Giacomo
part ii: compass
“Becoming (Help Wanted)” by Shelley Stoehr
“The Seven-Year Itch” by Misha Solomon
“HONEYBEE LOOSE TEA” by Mary Zhu
“Cinnabon” by Margaret Ray
“The Home Movie Star” by Jordan Gisselbrecht
“My New Husband Moves Me Out of My Wife’s House” by Mickie Kennedy
“Portrait of Desire with Faulty Theory of Art (Coyote and Roadrunner Again)” by Margaret Ray
part iii: haven
ليس لي مكان آخر (I Have Nowhere Else)” by Zeina Jhaish, translated by Aziz Bizid
“Turismos” by Xitlalitl Rodríguez-Mendoza, translated by Anayvelyse Allen-Mossman
“Cut Legs and Coffee Smell” by Amber Nuyens
“Limb!” by Nora Rose Tomas
“Conversation with My Spleen” by Devon Rae
“Better Instincts” by Mikka Jacobsen
“👉🤠👉” by Paula Turcotte
“Local Interior Time” by Kathryn Nogue
“Fine Lines” by Sarah Gilbert