SwampPink Literary Journal

Reruns

Daniel Lurie | Poetry

Love: Greek to Me

Michael Montlack | Poetry

Correlation

Elaine van der Geld | Flash Fiction

Nobody Said Anything

Jeff McLaughlin | Fiction

Influencers

Grace Chao | Fiction

HORSEPOWER

February Spikener | Essays

Crowded House

Nicky Beer | Poetry

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An Interview with Rae Dumont, author of In the Shadow of Silence

September 15, 2026 | blog, Interviews

“Bestseller career is not on my wish list, but I wanted to write something that was profoundly true.” — Rae Dumont

Letters from Donbas: Translating Silence and Fury

July 29, 2026 | book reviews, news

Review by Todd Larkin Tremble, MFA ‘27 Silence Dressed in Cyrillic Letters280 pp. Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. $29.95 Furious Harvests200 pp. Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. $29.95 Locomoting in both space and time, Iya Kiva recons with the trauma of her family and her nation’s artillery-pocked history in Silence Dressed in Cyrillic Letters. Displaced by Russia’s…

An Interview with M Lin

April 26, 2026 | blog, Interviews

M Lin’s first book, The Memory Museum is a collection of short stories that explores family, place, the future, and makes meaning from the fractures of a post-Covid world. Through a blend of Mandarin and English, the stories lie at the intersection of Chinese and American identity. Being absolutely enamored by these stories, it was my (Allie McCoy MFA ‘27) pleasure to speak with M about the collection and…

An Interview with Rickey Fayne, author of The Devil Three Times

February 19, 2026 | blog, Interviews

Back in December, I (Ebony Sade, MFA ’27) had the privilege of talking to author Rickey Fayne about his 2025 debut novel, The Devil Three Times. The novel is a deep imagining of enslavement in Tennessee. It brings forth a magical reckoning of ancestry as it spans across eight generations of a Black family whose…