Fiction
John Colburn, “the western story”
Mariana Enriquez, “Angelita Unearthed” (translated by Megan McDowell)
Leah Newsom, “The Harriet Kent Museum and Archive”
Alyssa Quinn, “Cityscape”
Jonathan Wlodarski, “Passion Bearer”
Nonfiction
Nichole LeFebvre, “Theory of Harmony”
L. I. Henley, “Insect Woman”
Adam Szetela, “Ordinary Boys”
Poetry
Andrew Bode-Lang, “Tonight’s Moon, Yesterday’s Snow”
Michael Chang, “wow you are a lot of *throat*”
“guess who’s coming to dinner at 38 oxley road,”
“vitamin D diptych”
James D’Agostino, “The Goldfinch Caution Tapes”
“Out into the Worldness I Did Roam”
J. Bailey Hutchinson, “Eat”
Kasey Jueds, “Body of Water”
Clare Paniccia, “My Groom as the Chandelier at Caz’s Bar in Tulsa, Oklahoma”
Alison Pelegrin, “Sucker”“
Carl Phillips, “Forever”
“The Gods Close Ranks”
Barbara Saunier, “Dominion”
Adam Tavel, “Neighbor”
Lynne Thompson, “The Day My Brothers Met Malcolm X,”
Jackie Braje, “Carol Arranges the Bodies”
John Gallaher, “Un- (Architecture 86)”
“Running (Architecture 80)”
Connor Yeck, “Lake Effect”
“I Want to Touch the Faces of Thos Projected Steermen”
2020 Literary Awards
Danielle P. Williams (poetry), “A Walk on June 19th”
“fa’ñague/fuh-nyah-ghee”
“Gospel”
Anna Genevieve Winham (creative nonfiction), “my mother // itch”
Alida Dean (fiction), “The Off Season”
Illinois Emerging Writers/Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize
(sponsored by the Illinois Center for the Book)
Elizabeth Hagenlocher, “Object Permanence” (1st Place)
Brett Pinkerton, “Elegy for Quentin Compson” (2nd Place)
Michael A. Keeton, “on Green Dolphin Street (Coltrane Paris 3.21.1960) (3rd Place)
Where We’re At
K. James D’Agostino, “Illinois Trails: A Meditation in Midwestern Beer”
Azlan Smith, “In the Middle”
Photographs
Yoko O. Kikuchi (website: yoko-ok.com; Instagram: @yoko-okay
Staff
Editor: Jodee Stanley
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Ted Sanders
Poetry Editor: Corey Van Landingham
Template Design: Natalie F. Smith
Illustrations: Alixandra Shuger
Assistant Editors: K. James D’Agostino, Aumaine Gruich, Erich Slimak
Editorial Assistants: Amanda Bales, Liz Harms, Drew Jennings, S. G. Maldonado-Vélez,, Jason Nafziger, Emmilea O’Toole, Elizabeth Pearl, Cole Piedimonte, Kent Quaney, Alixandra Shuger, Azlan Smith, Chris Vanjonack, Isaac Willis
Editor-at-Large: Philip Graham
Advisory Board: Amy Sayre Baptista, Traci Brimhall, James Brunton, Lindsey Drager, Matthew Minicucci, Marcus Wicker
Support at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Department of English
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
Individual Sponsors
Capital
Anonymous
Patron
Delysa Burnier
Richard Connor
Alma Gottlieb & Philip Graham
Sarah Knox, M.D.
John Hall, M.D.
Friend
Anonymous
Rev. Charles Matz.
Ninth Letter is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council.
