SwampPink Literary Journal

Faith

Emily Van Kley | Poetry

Papi’s Dog

Alejandro Puyana | Fiction

ON GROCERIES

brittny ray crowell | Poetry

Amongst Believers

Reyumeh Ejue | Fiction

IRL

Rebecca Swanberg | Essays

Homunculus

Angela Ma | Flash Fiction

Mating Pairs

Isaiah Yonah Back-Gaal | Poetry

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Catching up with Poetry Prize Winner Purvi Shah

October 8, 2024 | blog, interviews

Her most recent book, Miracle Marks (Northwestern UP, 2019), investigates gender violence and sacred survivals. Her prize-winning debut, Terrain Tracks (New Rivers Press, 2006), plumbs migration and loss. With Anjali Deshmukh, she creates interactive public art like Missed Fortunes, a community healing archive which documented pandemic rituals through poetry & visual art prints. Purvi relishes sparkly eyeshadow, raucous laughter, and seeking justice. SP: Throughout the piece you make use…

Catching up with 2024 Fiction Prize Winner Aelita Parker

October 8, 2024 | blog, news

Aelita Parker is a Japanese and Irish American writer based in Brooklyn. She received her MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College and her BA in psychology, religious studies, and Japanese from the University of Pennsylvania. Her short fiction, “Maybe a Lion” can be read in the 9th issue of the Vassar Review. She is currently…

Catching Up with 2024 Nonfiction Prize Winner Max Pasakorn

October 8, 2024 | blog, interviews

Max Pasakorn (he/she/they) is a queer writer of creative nonfiction and poetry. A Sewanee Writers’ Conference and Lambda Literary Retreat alum, Max has roots in Singapore, Thailand and the United States. Max is the author of creative nonfiction chapbook A Study in Our Selves (Neon Hemlock Press). Read Max’s other work in Split Lip Magazine,…

An Interview with Afabwaje Kurian, author of Before the Mango Ripens

September 19, 2024 | blog, interviews

Having been born in the United States and raised in a family of immigrants, I (Anik Nalbandian, MFA ’26) was excited to read and navigate the perspectives and paths represented in Afabwaje Kurian’s Before the Mango Ripens. This book braids the experience of native Nigerians with American missionaries to tell a tale of what it…