Contents

Interview with Heid E. Erdrich
Interviewed by Celia Easton Koehler

Letter to Tennessee Williams’ AI
Poetry | Michelle Patton

Pluto
Fiction | Brian J. Buchanan

This Is Not a Starry Night
Runner-Up of the 2024 Big Sky, Small Prose Contest | Amy Marques

Against Berryman & Against Myself
Poetry | Jen Frantz

Heat Rising: An Octet
Nonfiction | Sasha Ree Wohlpart

THE TRIPLE GODDESS
Poetry | Temperance Aghamohammadi

The Veil & EMERGE
Visual Art | Morgan Binkerd

Ohio True Wilderness Experience
Fiction | Andreas Trolf

The Pale Indian & Indian Sick
Poetry | Jake Arrowtop

POSTCARD FROM EVERYWHERE
Runner-Up of the 2025 Big Sky, Small Prose Contest | Sara Dudo

What Is
Poetry | Michael Lavers

Alligators
Nonfiction | Diane Zinna

There Hide Many Fish Swimming in the Secluded Nooks of Her Body & A Transverse Church
Translation | Yujing Liang
Poetry | Dai Weina

When Mama Was Pregnant with Shotgun, She Experienced Miracles
Winner of the 2025 Big Sky, Small Prose Contest | Insley Smullen

Letters from New York City, 1980
Poetry | Rebecca Faulkner

The Glow Within Lithium
Nonfiction | Don Lago