Fiction
Brock Clarke, “Memphis”
Jake Bartman, “Night Swim”
Amanda Haag, “HARRIDANS!“
Becky Hagenston, “Witnesses”
David Naimon, “Gathering”
Nonfiction
Paul Crenshaw, “Cold Cola Wars”
Brenda Miller & Julie Marie Wade, “Cars: An Essay in Two Voices”
Ellene Glenn Moore, “Stories My Mother Tells”
Poetry
Aldo Ampáran, “Misadventure”
Riley Bingham, “Bathos”
Megan Blankenship, “Her Last Supper”
“A Far Cry from the Lord
Adrian Blevins, “Relationship Status”
“Flight Status”
“Divorce Status”
Molly Brown, “a better name for grief might be found in pelican’s dive”
Cheng Yu, “From Falling Out of Love to Apocalypse” (translated by Nicholas Wong)
Alisha Dietzman, “the last judgment—giotto di bondone [Buon Fresco]”
“love poem by the light of prague”
“the last judgment—giotto di bondone [Fresco-Secco]”
Lara Egger, “If You’re Anything Like Me”
Kathy Fagan, “My Mother”
“Birds Are Public Animals of Capitalism“
Jennifer Saunders, “Choose Your Own Adventure”
Thom Schramm, “Swoop”
Aimee Seu, “Homage”
Jacob Sunderlin, “Deleted Scene”
“Blown Through the Stoma in His Throat, the Smoke of a Chesterfield Took a Variety of Shapes”
Milla van der Have, “eurydice in minor”
Special Feature
George Guida, “Tangible Faith: A Conversation with Anders Carlson-Wee
Where We’re At
Erich Slimak, “The Best There Is”
Emmilea O’Toole, “The Ice Cube”
Staff
Editor: Jodee Stanley
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Ted Sanders
Poetry Editor: Corey Van Landingham
Art Director: Natalie F. Smith
Senior Designers: Charlotte Peloquin, Andrea Worthington
Designers: Joanna Byrne, Taylor Chism, Anna Korol, Edgar Madrigal, Hayley Peterson, Gabe Rodriguez, Anna Sealey
Assistant Editors: Aumaine Gruich, Justin Smith, Jessica Tanck
Editorial Assistants: Amanda Bales, K. James D’Agostino, Liz Harms, S. G. Maldonado-Vélez,, Jason Nafziger, Emmilea O’Toole, Elizabeth Pearl, Cole Piedimonte, Kent Quaney, Alixandra Shuger, Erich Slimak, Azlan Smith, Chris Vanjonack, Isaac Willis
Editor-at-Large: Philip Graham
Advisory Board: Amy Sayre Baptista, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Traci Brimhall, James Brunton, Lindsey Drager, Matthew Minicucci, Marcus Wicker
Support at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
College of Fine and Applied Arts
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Department of English
Office of the Provost
School of Art + Design
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.
