How Quiet Burns
Volume 25 (2022-2023)

Editors
Meghan Maloney-Vinz (Executive), Rachel Guvenc (Managing), Kao Kalia Yang (Contributing, Creative Nonfiction), Ed Bok Lee (Contributing, Poetry), Mona Power (Contributing, Fiction)

Faculty Associate Editor
Katrina Vandenberg

Associate Editors
Trisha Daigle
Victoria McCurd

Assistant Editors
Zoey Gulden
Mubanga Kalimamukwento
Larissa Larson

With gratitude to the students of the Editorial Board

Read a letter from the Executive Editor

CONTENTS:

FICTION

The Snow Maiden SHANNON SCOTT​
Observation Notes on the Effects of the Vespa Mandarinia ANNIE TRINH
Mushrooms MAUREEN AITKEN
Squeaky RACHEL FINN-LOHMANN
The Swimming Lesson NADIA BORN
Dolores-Born-Without-Ears A. MUIA
Mr Chilombo’s Wife J. G. JESMAN
It’s the Music She Wants DAVIDA KILGORE
Drowning in shallow water is our only escape ERNESTINE SAANKALÁXT HAYES

POETRY

Shoreline JENNIFER HUANG
Mother, Ankle Deep TARA WESTMOR
The River, a Ghost MICHAEL GARRIGAN
Lilac Time Minneapolis, May 2020 PATRICK CABELLO HANSEL
I Stand on the X ALICE DUGGAN
Philophobia TY CHAPMAN
Pantheon TY CHAPMAN
Skinny Light ĐENISE HẠNH HUỲNH
Sins of Omission NANCY SHIH-KNODEL
Red by Yellow Brought ROSALYNDE VAS DIAS
Inside the Glass Door of the Seongnae-dong Clothing Repairs SIN YONG-MOK,
—–Translated by JAKE LEVINE and BROTHER ANTHONY
A White Butterfly SIN YONG-MOK,
—–Translated by JAKE LEVINE and BROTHER ANTHONY
Lazy Corpse SIN YONG-MOK,
—–Translated by JAKE LEVINE and BROTHER ANTHONY
We Met at Roosevelt Hospital KATHRYN SAVAGE
An Ant JEONG HO-SEUNG,
—–Translated by BROTHER ANTHONY
Ni de aquí, ni de allá: ni de la pinche luna JOSE HERNANDEZ DIAZ
Alternate Endings BEATRICE LAZARUS
Tool-shed WALKER JAMES
Zoologist JASON RYOU
Fascination for Windows KIM HAENGSOOK,
—–Translated by LÉO-THOMAS BRYLOWSKI
Dark and Clear Sleep HWANG YUWON, Translated by JAKE LEVINE
Adiós, Miami MARCI CALABRETTA CANCIO-BELLO
Cloud’s Table HA JAEYOUN, Translated by SUE HYON BAE
Chair HA JAEYOUN,
—–Translated by SUE HYON BAE
The Hunger CHLOË MOORE
A Pantoum for Family EVA SONG MARGOLIS
Shelter DAVID MELVILLE
Airship ROBERT HEDIN

CREATIVE NON-FICTION

When We Were Boys CIARA ALFARO
Prairie Patch CATHARINA COENEN
Voting Day J. JACQUELINE McLEAN
Five Ways of Looking at Paul Bunyan GREGOR LANGEN
On Thelma & Louise COLE W. WILLIAMS
Mother II tswb
Design Work SUZANNE MANIZZA ROSZAK
Milk Stains MICHAEL HAHN
Vanishing Point JEAN McDONOUGH
People in Cars Outside the Coin Laundry JOSEPH HOLT
See You Later, Alligator BRAD HAGEN

INTERVIEW

With Michael Torres  ROBYN EARHART and LARISSA LARSON

BOOK REVIEWS

Speaking the Self  STAN SANVEL RUBIN