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Lisa Bao

Lisa Bao is Chinese-Canadian with a mostly American upbringing. She officially studies linguistics and computer science, and unofficially fiction and poetry, at Swarthmore College.


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22 May 2023
Poetry
Venus Limbs 
By: Jie Cohen
IN THE CRUST DIRT IN WILLENDORF CAN YOU BELIEVE THEY FOUND ME I WAS SO CAREFUL TO HIDE
Poetry
Skywoman and Eve 
By: Goran Lowie
sustenance for body and mind / the plants are telling stories
Articles, Non-Fiction
Star Trek and Extractivism: A Conversation with Una McCormack and Manu Saadia 
By: Gautam Bhatia
By: Una McCormack
By: Manu Saadia
So much of contemporary Star Trek is about looking at what happens to Utopia when it comes under strain.
Columns, Non-Fiction
The Myriad Drumbeats of Afrofuturism 
By: Mame Bougouma Diene
If bad wine stays bad, isn’t that a good thing?
Critical Friends, Podcasts
Critical Friends Episode 6 
By: Aishwarya Subramanian and Dan Hartland
In this episode, we air an interview with the reviewer, editor, and critic Niall Harrison.
Reviews
Monday: Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston by Esme Symes-Smith 
By: Dean Leetal
Wednesday: Patterns of Orbit by Chloe N. Clark 
By: Nicole E. Beck
Friday: The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan 
By: Eric Hendel
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Issue 15 May 2023
Fiction
Undog 
By: Eugenia Triantafyllou
Poetry
SPIDER LILY CYBORG 
By: Stephanie Chang
Poetry
Hatch 
By: J. M. Bédard
Reviews
Monday: Arch-Conspirator by Veronica Roth 
By: Electra Pritchett
,
Wednesday: Vehicle by Jen Calleja 
By: Nick Gloaming
,
Friday: Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake 
By: E. C. Barrett
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Issue 8 May 2023
Fiction
Spring Woods Spring 
By: B. Pladek
Poetry
The Untaken 
By: Mark Dimaisip
Poetry
Ode to Great Heaps of Stuff Not Unlike to Men's Guts 
By: Andrew Kozma
Reviews
Monday: Linghun by Ai Jiang 
By: Shannon Fay
,
Wednesday: Orphans of Canland by Daniel Vitale 
By: Andy Sawyer
,
Friday: Headspace and Master of the Arena by J.D. Edwin 
By: Priscilla King
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Issue 1 May 2023
Fiction
Death Comes for the Sworn Virgins 
By: Avra Margariti
Poetry
The witches are without work 
By: Angela Liu
Poetry
Cinderella 
By: Julie Shiel
Reviews
Monday: The God of Endings by Jacqueline Holland 
By: Christina Ladd
,
Wednesday: Beyond the Burn Line by Paul McAuley 
By: Duncan Lawie
,
Friday: Flux by Jinwoo Chong 
By: Tina S. Zhu
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Issue 24 Apr 2023
Poetry
Did you hear about the neighbors? 
By: Seth Wade
Articles, Non-Fiction
Making, Breaking, and Extraction: An Exploration of Bodies and Time in SFF 
By: Shinjini Dey
Poetry
In a country where history is only a memory that has grown older 
By: Michael Imossan
Critical Friends, Podcasts
Podcast: Critical Friends Episode 5 
By: Aishwarya Subramanian and Dan Hartland
Columns, Non-Fiction
Writing While Disabled 
By: Sumiko Saulson
By: Kristy Anne Cox
Reviews
Monday: The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez 
By: Adri Joy
,
Wednesday: Africa Risen by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight 
By: Archita Mittra
,
Friday: Where I End by Sophie White 
By: David Hebblethwaite
Read Issue
Issue 17 Apr 2023
Art, Fiction
Cassia De Claire's Revolving Cabinet Cards 
By: Sarah McGill
Art by: Palloma Barreto
Poetry
The Plural of Apocalypse 
By: Marissa Lingen
Poetry
When You Read This Debris 
By: Toby MacNutt
Reviews
Monday: In Ascension by Martin MacInnes 
By: Nina Allan
,
Wednesday: Everything’s Changing by Chelsea Stickle 
By: William Shaw
,
Friday: The Defectors by René Georg Vasicek 
By: Aaron Heil
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Issue 10 Apr 2023
Poetry
dear Tom Cassidy's daughter 
By: Gwynne Garfinkle
Poetry
Wolpertinger at Thebes 
By: Kym Deyn
Fiction
Murciélago 
By: Ana Hurtado
Reviews
Monday: Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun by Tolá Okogwu and Sànyà by Oyin Olugbile 
By: A. S. Moser
,
Wednesday: The Hollows by Daniel Church 
By: Eric Primm
,
Friday: Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell 
By: Safia H. Senhaji
Read Issue
Issue 3 Apr 2023
Poetry
Idemili 
By: Somto Ihezue
Fiction
Here All Week 
By: Natasha King
Poetry
Possession of the Farmer's Son 
By: J. Federle
Reviews
Monday: The Last Dreamwalker by Rita Woods 
By: Seamus Sullivan
,
Wednesday: Light Years From Home by Mike Chen 
By: Divyansha Sehgal
,
Friday: The Two Doctors Górski by Isaac Fellman 
By: Amy Nagopaleen
Read Issue
Issue 27 Mar 2023
Poetry
Leaping through the centuries 
By: Paul Gregory Nauert
Poetry
abura sashi 
By: A. A. Ademola
Columns, Non-Fiction
Depth of Field I: Remaking History 
By: Niall Harrison
Columns, Non-Fiction
Stories From The Radio: The Slide 
By: Kuzhali Manickavel
Columns, Non-Fiction
Short Fiction Treasures: Quarterly Fiction Roundup 
By: Maria Haskins
Critical Friends, Podcasts
Podcast: Critical Friends Episode 4 
By: Aishwarya Subramanian and Dan Hartland
Articles, Non-Fiction
Hostile Constructs: On Building Worlds from the Margins of Sex 
By: S. A. Chant
Reviews
Monday: The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: Volume Three edited by Paula Guran 
By: Octavia Cade
,
Wednesday: And Lately, The Sun edited by Calyx Create Group 
By: Nicole E. Beck
,
Friday: August Kitko and the Mechas from Space by Alex White 
By: Stephen Case
Read Issue
Issue 20 Mar 2023
Azimuth
Open Fiction Submissions Window in April 
By: Aigner Loren Wilson
Art, Fiction
Always and Forever, Only You 
By: Iona Datt Sharma
Art by: Julia Quandt
Poetry
Some Facts are Difficult to Discuss 
By: M. E. Silverman
Poetry
The Subway Is Another Place To Die 
By: Angela Liu
Reviews
Monday: Seasons in Hippoland by Wanjiku wa Ngũgĩ 
By: Manasa Tantravahi
,
Wednesday: Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett 
By: Catherine Baker
,
Friday: Full Immersion by Gemma Amor 
By: Ai Jiang
Read Issue
Issue 13 Mar 2023
Poetry
Urban Legends of the Ohio River 
By: Laura Grothaus
Poetry
魔神仔 (Móshénzǐ) 
By: L. Acadia
Fiction
The Sing-along Killing and Silent Death of Malakine, the Horse Whisperer 
By: Abhilash Jayachandra
Reviews
Monday: Illuminations by Alan Moore 
By: William Shaw
,
Wednesday: Where Black Stars Rise by Nadia Shammas and Marie Enger 
By: Electra Pritchett
,
Friday: Conscious Designs by Nathanial White 
By: Seamus Sullivan
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