Mary McLaughlin Slechta is the 2021 recipient of the Kimbilio National Fiction Prize for Mulberry Street Stories (Four Way Books, 2023). She has recently published fiction in Mom Egg Review and midnight & indigo and has new work forthcoming in Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora. A Kimbilio Fellow, she lives in Syracuse, New York with her family.
POETRY: Issue 35