In our newest issue, ZYZZYVA asks: Having kids—what could possibly go wrong? In Eric Puchner’s “Heavenland,” a stalled L.A. artist finds his style—and his relationships—severely cramped after the birth of his son. In Vanessa Hua’s “A River of Stars,” a pregnant mistress in Southern California is cornered by the wishes of her married lover in China. In Nana K. Twumasi’s “Pica,” a widowed father tries to make sense of his young daughter’s troubling eating compulsion. And in Kate Milliken’s “A Matter of Time,” a suburban mother hopes a dinner party with an old and successful friend can salvage her dreams. […]
Issue: Volume 29, #2, Fall 2013
Featured in our Fall issue: Fiction from Kirstin Chen, Vanessa Hua, Kimberly Lambright, Kate Milliken, Eric Puchner, Elizabeth Spencer, and Nana K. Twumasi. Poetry from Zubair Ahmed, David Biespiel, Rebecca Foust, John Glowney, Miriam Bird Greenberg, Diane K. Martin, Annie Mascorro, Jill Osier, Dean Rader, Jacques J. Rancourt, and Caitlin Vance. Nonfiction from Anne Raeff. Introducing First Time in Print writer Rosie Cima, and art from Vanessa Marsh and Devri Richmond.