Steven Archer is a queer, Haitian-Peruvian writer from Hollywood, Florida. An alum of the Tin House autumn workshop, he holds an MFA from the University of Central Florida, where he was provost fellow in fiction. His work has appeared in AGNI and The Superstition Review. Twitter/X and Instagram.
Across the train tracks from BWI station, a portal shimmered in the shade of a patch of tall trees. From her seat on a northbound train taking on passengers, Dottie watched a woman slip a note out of her pocket, place it under a rock, strip off her work uniform, then walk naked, smiling, into the portal.
In this episode of SH@25, Editor Kat Kourbeti sits down with Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li to discuss her foray into poetry, screenwriting, music composition and more, and also presents a reading of her two poems published in 2022, 'Ave Maria' and 'The Mezzanine'.