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Contributor Update Paula Cisewski

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Congratulations to past contributor Paula Cisewski on the publication of her newest book! Ceremonies for no Repair includes Cisewski’s visual art for the first time: prints and fragments of small drawings and comics are interspersed with journal fragments and poems. A heroic crown of sonnets for her mother, who died in June of 2020, weaves through the book as well. 

The book was published through Beauty School Editions LLC and is available now for purchase!

In Ceremonies for No Repair, Paula Cisewski challenges us to examine our grief for the depths of our care. Set in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, this hybrid of poetry, prose, and images is a collage of personal and universal sorrows: a surprise divorce, an uprising, a mother’s death in quarantine. Less narrative than aggregate, it is a book about staying present and moving both with and through. It is an accrual of small moments and actions that, together, gesture toward hope.

Additionally, you can hear Paula read her work at the New Orleans Poetry Festival on Sunday, April 22nd at 2pm.

Ancestress: A Reading that Echoes Forward

This reading panel, featuring poets Darius Atefat-Peckham, Paula Cisewski, Angie Mazakis, and Danika Stegeman, formed around the idea of the “Ancestress,” as illuminated in the Bjork song from her 2022 album Fossora. The idea of the ancestress explores the ways we evolve from and carry our mothers as well as broader ideas of birth, mothering, and the feminine forward in time. Our mothers survive pain and violence while also creating life and/or healing in the face of those things. The readers come from diverse backgrounds and will share poems inspired by their mothers that capture the complexity, terror, and grace of their unique experiences. As Bjork intones “You see with your own eyes / But hear with your mother’s.” All of the panelists have lost their mothers, three in 2020. Each of us carry our mother forward in time through our survival and our words. To echo Bjork, “We are her hopekeepers / we assure hope is there at, at all times.”  

Ceremonies for No Repair has already received high praise:

“Night skull elegy, matrilineal pandemic pillow book, harrowing florilegium, red-threaded unbinding spell, Paula Cisewski’s Ceremonies for No Repair descends into the mouth of the lion called care. Down its milky throat and once thought. Into its green heart of radiant grief.”

—Elisabeth Workman

“The inclusion of art and of the footnotes, and of the diary-like material along- side poems creates this vision of Cisewski’s artistic process and radiates outward to echo the artistic processes of others: like THIS IS WHAT ART IS: these are the materials. 

—Danika Stegeman

Read Paula’s poem, “Notes Toward Eternity,” from Superstition Review Issue 25 published in the spring of 2020.

Paula Cisewski is a poet, editor, artist, educator, and curator. She is also the author of The Becoming Game (Hanging Loose Press, 2025), Quitter (Diode Editions Book Prize winner), The Threatened Everything, Ghost Fargo (Nightboat Poetry Prize winner, selected by Franz Wright), Upon Arrival, and several chapbooks. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from or- ganizations including the Jerome Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Oberholtzer Foundation, and Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts. To find out more about Paula’s work, visit her website.

Meet the Poetry Contributors for Issue 33

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Our editors are hard at work building Issue 33 of Superstition Review, which will launch May 1. This issue features ten poets: Anastacia Renee, CD Eskilson, Ian C. Williams, Lindsey Schaffer, Megan J. Arlett, Patricia David-Muffett, Rachel Mallalieu, Sara E. Hughes, Shehrbano Naqvi, and Tatiana Dolgushina.

Anastacia-Reneé (She/They) is a queer writer, educator, interdisciplinary artist, playwright, former radio host, TEDX speaker, and podcaster. She is the author of Here In The (Middle) Of Nowhere, Side Notes From The Archivist, (v.) and Forget It. Sidenotes from the Archivist was selected as one of “NYPL Best Books of 2023,” and, The American Library Associations (RUSA) “Notable Books of 2024.” Anastacia-Reneé served as Seattle Civic Poet during Seattle’s inaugural year of UNESCO status as well as Hugo House Poet-in-Residence, and Jack Straw Fellowship Curator. Her work has been anthologized and published widely.

CD Eskilson is a trans poet, editor, and translator living in Arkansas. They are a recipient of the C.D. Wright/Academy of American Poets Prize, as well as a Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Their debut poetry collection, Scream / Queen, is forthcoming from Acre Books.

Ian C. Williams is an Appalachian poet and the author of Every Wreckage (2024 Fernwood Press). His work has been included in Fourteen Hills, Moon City Review, Salamander, and Appalachian Review, among others. He is the editor-in-chief for Jarfly: A Poetry Magazine. Williams lives with his wife and two sons in Fairmont, West Virginia.

Lindsey Schaffer is the author of City of Contradiction (Selcouth Station) and Witch City (dancing girl press, forthcoming). Her work has appeared in The Eunoia Review, Reservoir Road Literary Review, and elsewhere. Lindsey has received scholarships and fellowships from the Indiana Writers Workshop, AWP, the City of Bloomington, and the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University. She serves as a poetry editor for Variant Literature.

Megan J. Arlett was born in the UK, grew up in Spain, and now lives in New Mexico. The recipient of two Academy of American Poets Prizes, her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2019, Best New British and Irish Poets, Gulf Coast, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, Passages North, and Prairie Schooner, among others.

Patricia Davis-Muffett (she/her) holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota. Her chapbook, Alchemy of Yeast and Tears, was published in spring 2023. Her work has won honors including Best of the Net nomination and second place in the 2024 Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest (selected by Marge Piercy), and appears in Best New Poets, Atlanta Review, Whale Road Review, Calyx and About Place, among others.

Rachel Mallalieu is an emergency physician and mother of five. She is the author of the chapbook A History of Resurrection (Alien Buddha Press 2022). Some of her recent work is featured or forthcoming in Nelle, Chestnut Review, Whale Road Review, and DIALOGIST.

Sara E. Hughes is a Massachusetts-born poet. She received an honorable mention for the American Poets College & University Prize in 2022. She is a 2022 Wild Seeds Writer’s Retreat Fellow and a 2022 Aspen Words participant. Sara is the recipient of the 2021 Elaine V. Beilin, Howard Hirt, and Marjorie Sparrow Awards of Framingham State University. Sara’s work is forthcoming in Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. Sara is a fellow at Randolph College’s MFA program.

Tatiana Dolgushina is a Soviet immigrant, born in Soviet Russia and raised in Ukraine, Argentina, Chile, and the United States. This multilingual and multicultural identity is central to her work. Her chapbook, Carried/in our language was a finalist for the Vinyl 45 Chapbook Prize and is forthcoming from YesYes Books in 2025. A graduate of the Oregon State MFA, her writing is forthcoming or has been published in Beloit Poetry Journal, Rattle, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Hunger Mountain, New Farmer’s Almanac, the other side of hope, Collateral, and elsewhere.

Honey by Victor Lodato: Contributor Update

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Congratulations to previous contributor Victor Lodato on the forthcoming publication of his third novel! Honey is available for preorder now from Harper Collins, and will be released on April 16th.

You can attend his book launch on Friday, April 19 at 7:00 pm in Changing Hands Bookstore (6428 S McClintock Dr, Tempe, AZ 85283). He’ll be in conversation with the amazing Javier Zamora, NY Times bestselling author of SOLITO. 

She knows where all the bodies are buried.

Honey Fasinga, the glamorous daughter of a notorious New Jersey mobster, is returning home at last, ready to reckon with her violent past.

As a rebellious teenager, Honey managed to escape her father’s circle of influence and reinvent herself in a world of art and beauty, working for a high-end auction house in Los Angeles. Now in her twilight years, she decides to return home and unexpectedly falls in love. But in her family, nothing has changed. When her grandnephew Michael bursts into her life in what appears to be a drug-fueled frenzy, and her Lexus gets jacked, it’s hard to keep minding her own business. As old cruelties begin to resurface, Honey is no longer sure what she really wants—to forgive or to avenge.

Honey has already received significant praise:

“Utterly enchanting. A deeply human novel that sings the song of life itself. What a brilliant feat of empathy, style, and transcendent beauty—Lodato has created a true original in Honey.”

— Mona Awad, author of Bunny

“Rarely in literature—rarely in our lives—do we encounter someone like Honey Fasinga: fierce, complicated, and out-of-this-world sharp both inside and out. I cried, laughed, and screamed while reading this novel. Weeks after finishing, I am still looking for Honey everywhere.”

— Javier Zamora, New York Times bestselling author of Solito

Read our interview with Victor from Issue 8 here!

Follow his work on his website.

Victor Lodato is the author of two critically acclaimed novels. Edgar and Lucy was called “a riveting and exuberant ride” by the New York Times, and Mathilda Savitch, winner of the PEN USA Award, was hailed as “a Salingeresque wonder of a first novel.” Mathilda Savitch also won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize and has been published in sixteen countries. Victor is a Guggenheim Fellow, as well as the recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Princess Grace Foundation, The Camargo Foundation (France), and The Bogliasco Foundation (Italy). His short fiction and essays have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, and Best American Short Stories. Victor was born and raised in New Jersey and currently divides his time between Ashland, Oregon and Tucson, Arizona. 

Steve Almond Contributor Update

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We at Superstition Review are excited to celebrate Steve Almond’s new movie and forthcoming craft book! Which Brings Me to You (2023) is available to stream now, and his book Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow: A DIY Manual for the Construction of Stories will be published with Zando on April 9th. It is available for preorder now on bookshop.com or Amazon.

Read our interview of Steve Almond for Issue 2 of s[r] here, where he talks about using candy as an anti-depressant and the process of writing the novel Which Brings Me to You with a co-author, Julianna Baggott.

In Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow, Steve Almond employs the radical empathy he displayed as co-host (with Cheryl Strayed) of the podcast Dear Sugars to explore the joys and trials of storytelling, and to explode the myths that hold us back from writing our deepest and truest work. The book includes chapters on plot, character, and chronology, but travels far beyond the earnest intentions of most craft books. It includes essays on humor, sex, writer’s block, and the dividends of failure, as well as prompts to generate new work and a rollicking Frequently Asked Questions section. You’ll never think about writing the same way again.

The long-awaited craft book has received glowing praise:

“Hilarious, heartfelt, and hopeful.”

– STAR TRIBUNE

“Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow is a hilarious book that will kick your writing to the next level. I salivated over it and underlined like a madwoman.”

– MARIA SEMPLE, AUTHOR OF WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE

Which Brings Me to You is a romantic comedy based on Almond and Baggott’s novel. Watch the trailer below!

Which Brings Me to You (2023)

Steve Almond is the author of eleven books of fiction and nonfiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Candyfreak and Against Football. His essays and reviews have been published in venues ranging from the New York Times Magazine to Ploughshares to Poets & Writers, and his short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, Best American Mysteries, and Best American Erotica. Almond is the recipient of grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. He cohosted the Dear Sugars podcast with his pal Cheryl Strayed for four years, and teaches Creative Writing at the Neiman Fellowship at Harvard and Wesleyan. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts, with his family and his anxiety. You can find out more about Steve on his website.

Contributor Update: Jim Daniels

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Congratulations to previous contributor Jim Daniels, on the publication of his new chapbook! Comment Card is available for purchase now through the publisher, Carnegie Mellon University Press, or on Bookshop, which supports independent bookstores.

Daniels’ poems offer up a world of juxtapositions, searching for equilibrium between the sublime and the mundane: a man watching young lovers kiss while poisoned ants rain down on his porch. A Christmas tree-needle collection and Jimmy Durante. The litter of a three-hole punch and a daughter leaving for college. Tamarinds and the International Space Station. A crushed snail and the Holy Trinity. These poems wonder, how did we get here, and, by the way, where are we?

Comment Card has already received worthy praise:

“Jim Daniels is a generous, inventive poet with great emotional range and insight. He is at home writing poems about home—the domestic space, child-rearing, marriage, aging, ambition—with honesty, intimacy, and grace . . . Jim Daniels is humorous, provocative, and smart—an American treasure.”

Denise Duhamel

“As prolific as he is talented. Jim Daniels gets my vote as ‘the hardest working man in poetry.’ His poems are honest, straightforward, full of insight, wit and goodwill, and grounded firmly in the human and the humane.”

Charles Harper Webb

You can read Jim’s story, “13 Ways of Looking at My Father in His Bathing Suit” in Issue 12 of s[r], or his story “Single Room” in our first ever issue of s[r]! We also interviewed Jim Daniels for our debut issue. You can read his interview here, where he talks about everything from the discipline factory work taught him to apply to writing, to his early writings being praised by a teacher as poetry—freaking him out and sending him temporarily on a path of “writing things that sounded like some self-pitying bad rhyming dude from the eighteenth century.”

Enjoy an electrifying preview of Daniel’s chapbook:

COMMENT CARD

Below zero—the hotel lost power—
frozen lines, broken sprinklers, just when
guests like us had flicked our lights off
to slog our way toward sleep. Alarms
blazed their grim fiery order: evacuate.
The laminated Emergency Plan instructed
us to gather in the parking lot and wait.
Half-dressed, half-awake, we bristled
at the dark betrayal. One gaunt guy
in sweats and shorts jogged in place,
turned zombie blue.

Someone aimed a flashlight at our frozen feet
till the cleaning lady invited us to squeeze
into her tiny car, then started it up. Shoulders
rubbed. We did not sing songs. We shared
scraps and fragments of what brought us
to our lonely rooms. Bianca from house-
keeping shared cookies she’d stolen
for her two kids. Her English: Take.

None of us were meeting-cute.
No coincidental links or sit-com jokes.
The situation: I sat between an older
businessman and a younger saleswoman.
Bianca’s old car smelled of Jesus air freshener.
Good heater, I said, and everyone agreed.
Our bodies, forced together,
grudged up extra heat.

The lights came on—you know that.
We fled the car in a mad frigid flurry.
The hotel offered us coffee and tea
in the lobby. We spread out over
stuffed couches. Bianca served us.
The manager chatted us up.
What can you do, he asked,
in weather like this?

Jim Daniels has authored over thirty collections of poetry, seven collections of fiction, and four produced screenplays. His most recent books include The Luck of the Fall (2023), The Human Engine at Dawn (2022), and Comment Card (2024). His books have won three Michigan Notable Book Awards, the Brittingham Prize for Poetry, the Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry, the Tillie Olsen Creative Writing Award, the Milton Kessler Award, and three Gold Medals in the Independent Publisher Book Awards. His work has been published in The Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize volumes.

During his long career, he has warmed up for singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams at the Three Rivers Arts Festival, read poems at a Jamestown Jammers AA baseball game, had his poem “Factory Love” displayed on a race car, and sent poetry to the moon soon as part of the Moon Arts Project. A native of Detroit, he lives in Pittsburgh, where he is the Thomas Stockham Baker University Professor Emeritus of English at Carnegie Mellon University. He currently teaches in the Alma College low-residency MFA Program. You can find out more about Jim Daniels on his website.

Meet the Art Contributors for Issue 33

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Our editors are hard at work building Issue 33 of Superstition Review, which will launch May 1. This issue features art from six award-winning artists: Dixie Salazar, Kathy Peterson, Slav Nedev, Kelly D Villalba, Rodney Rigby, and Nam Hoang Tran.

Dixie Salazar is an artist and writer who has shown her work extensively in the Central Valley of California also in San Francisco, Merced, Las Vegas, Oregon, and New York. She has had numerous one-person shows in Fresno, and also Merced, Turlock, and Monterey. A major show at Arte Americas in Fresno in 2006 explored Mayan symbolism in her painted collages. Dixie shows throughout California. Her latest one-person show took place at the Fig Tree Gallery in Fresno, CA. in 2021. Dixie has a studio/gallery at 654 Van Ness in downtown Fresno. She also is a published poet with seven books of poetry, the latest from Stephen F. Austin University Press called “Crosshairs of the Ordinary World” in 2023. She has also published two novels. In 2023, Dixie received a California Arts council Fellowship for her artwork.

Kathy (K. Alma) Peterson is a painter and poet. Her paintings are abstract mixed media. She has a Studio Arts minor BA from the University of Minnesota. Her MFA in Poetry is from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She has published two books of poetry with Blaze Vox Books. She lives in Florida.

Slav Nedev is a freelance artist born in 1967 in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he lives and works. Through his body of work, he explores a wide range of styles and media, including painting, digital art, objects, sculptures, and installations. His latest projects examine the interplay between the inner and outer world and those eternal principles that, even if intangible, make the phenomena as we know them. Slav is currently curating a group show set to open in November 2024 and working on two solo shows scheduled for 2025.

Kelly D Villalba is a visual artist based in Los Angeles, California. In her art practice, she creates unique sculptural artworks to reimagine the idea of the traditional coiled basket. Kelly uses fiber and found material to create funky forms emphasized by contrasting colors and vivid patterns. Through her use of coiling, a weaving technique originated by Black and Indigenous artisans, she creates imaginative soft sculptures for a contemporary audience.

Rodney Rigby is the Author/Illustrator of several children’s books, all published by Hyperion, New York. He also Illustrated Paul Muldoon’s The Last Thesaurus. His Art has been shown in the US, UK and Europe. For the past year Rodney has been Artist in Residence at his local library in Liverpool. Helping make art more accessible to adults and children alike. 

Nam Hoang Tran is a multidisciplinary artist based in Orlando, FL. His work appears or is forthcoming in Posit, The Brooklyn Review, ANMLY, New Delta Review, Tagvverk, Always Crashing, and Diode, among others. With Henry Goldkamp, he co-edits TILT – a journal of intermedia poetics.

Retribution Forthcoming: Katie Berta

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Congratulations to Katie Berta on the publication of her first poetry collection! retribution forthcoming is available now from Ohio University Press or your local bookstore. You can attend the book’s launch in Arizona on Monday, April 15th at 7 p.m. at Changing Hands Tempe (6428 S McClintock Dr, Tempe, AZ 85283), which will feature Dexter Booth and Justin Petropoulos as co-readers. 

In the lineage of New York School poets like Alice Notley and Bernadette Mayer, retribution forthcoming does its exploratory work through narrative and lyric modes, by simile and catalogue. By turns oblique and direct, Katie Berta’s poems look vulnerably and honestly at sexual coercion and the psychological fallout of assault. These poems move through academic, public, and domestic spaces— and through the domain of memory—investigating the ways consumerist society reinforces and reifies gender conformity and performativity. The world of these poems and their trauma narrative is woven through and deepened by the heartful speaker’s sense of humor and eagerness to love and trust.

For readers interested in interrogating ecological, capitalist, gendered, and private violence, for sensitive and intuitive listeners, and for lovers of poets like Natalie Scenters-Zapico, Jay Hopler, and Paisley Rekdal, retribution forthcoming is an inspired and visionary debut.

retribution forthcoming is the recipient of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize! That is only the beginning of the praise it has received:

“retribution forthcoming fuses the abject with the sincere, the tender with the perverse. Katie Berta’s voice is straight-up. Bare-faced. Flat-out. She catalogs both the worthwhile and the intolerable, and the result is exhilarating: a killing bite into the marrow of whatever it is we think we’re doing here.”

Claire Wahmanholm, author of Meltwater: Poems

“Katie Berta reminds us ‘the world is a fight’ and these poems refuse to pull punches. In retribution forthcoming, sarcasm collides with an exhaustion of the patriarchal clutch on society as well as the stark realities of womanhood, poethood, and traumas rife with contention and devastation to the human psyche.”

Felicia Zamora, author of I Always Carry My Bones

“These poems roil with thought and with dogs and with media-glut. They overflow with fear and love; devastating events and numb, weak aftermaths; what to eat, or slather into your insufficient skin: and still their capacities for humor, for tenderness– their raw courage in the face of a virulent internal naysayer—thrill and buoy us.”

Sally Ball, author of Hold Sway

Katie Berta’s debut poetry collection, retribution forthcoming, won the Hollis Summers Prize and will be published by Ohio University Press in 2024. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Cincinnati Review, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Denver Quarterly, The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Bennington Review, among other magazines. She has received residencies from Millay Arts, Ragdale, and The Hambidge Center, fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, and an Iowa Review Award. She is the managing editor of The Iowa Review and teaches literary editing and poetry at the University of Iowa and Arizona State University. You can find out more about Katie on her website.

Tabitha, Get Up: Lee Upton Contributor Update

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Congratulations to Lee Upton on the upcoming release of Tabitha, Get Up. The novel will be available on May 22nd 2024 from Sagging Meniscus Press, and is available now for preorder.

Tabitha is a lonely fifty-year-old biographer who, in order to restore her self-respect and pay her rent, attempts to write two biographies simultaneously: one about an actor so famous his face is on the side of buses, and the other about a popular writer of children’s books recently outed as an author of erotic fiction. Is Tabitha ready to deal with interviewing an actor so handsome and charismatic she thinks he should be bottled and sprayed on belligerent people as a form of crowd control? Can she form a genuine friendship with a cult novelist who pressures her to compromise her values? While facing these and other challenges, Tabitha is bedeviled by memories of her long-ago divorce and the terrible wedding when, accidently bumped on a balcony, she shot off into the shrubbery. Is it true, she wonders, that there’s probably a dead body beneath the floating rot of any marriage? When surrounded by pretentious beautiful people does it help to imagine their intestines are full of worms? Are champagne bubbles the devil’s air pockets? Is it ever too late to change your life—from the bottom up?

Tabitha, Get Up has received significant praise!

“For starters, Lee Upton’s novel Tabitha, Get Up is funny—really, really funny. On top of that, narrator Tabitha’s clumsy, desperate, charming search for human connection—not to mention a paying gig—is also a serious look at whether it’s possible to bluff and hustle a life together. You’re going to love this book.”

David Ebenbach, author of The Guy We Didn’t Invite to the Orgy

Its protagonist, Tabitha, is a glorious piece of work: a biographer with a feverish mind and a long list of antagonists and an indomitable spirit and an unforgettable voice and major money problems. I wouldn’t want anyone to live her life, but I very much want everyone to read her book.

Brock Clarke, author of Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe? and I, Grape

“There is no form of the novel—the novel takes forms. Lee Upton’s
comely new novel presents as a series of exquisite ‘Notes’—to self,
to random others, to you who finds them. Riding herd, Upton
wrangles a novel that writes itself and rights itself.”

Michael Martone, author of Plain Air: Sketches from Winesburg, Indiana

You can read Lee Upton’s story, “After the Party,” in Issue 17 of s[r].

Lee Upton is an author of books of poetry, fiction, and literary criticism. Another of her novels, a literary mystery, will be out in May 2025. Her books include her seventh collection of poetry, The Day Every Day Is (Saturnalia Books 2023), two short story collections, a novella, four books of literary criticism, and an essay collection. Her poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, and Southern Review, as well as three editions of Best American Poetry. She is the recipient of the Pushcart Prize, the National Poetry Series Award, Poetry Society of America awards, the Miami University Novella Prize, the Open Book Award, the Saturnalia Book Prize, and other honors. You can keep up to date with Lee’s goings on on her website.

Intern Update: Carrie Grant

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We are thrilled to highlight past intern, Carrie Grant, on her recent accomplishments. Carrie is currently an assistant professor at Towson University. Her areas of expertise are professional and technical communication, community engagement, and feminist digital literacies.

Dr. Grant’s research examines trust-building tactics in technical communication, emphasizing strategies for reaching disenfranchised audiences with good reason for skepticism. She particularly works with girls’ summer technology camps, which build girls’ confidence in their STEM abilities through technical instruction intertwined with mentorship. Dr. Grant teaches applied professional writing projects using community engagement pedagogy and works with Towson’s G.I.V.E. (Grantwriting In Valued Environments) program.

Carrie was recently interviewed by More than Memos for a video titled, How Do We Manage Community Engagement Without Screwing Over the Community? The discussion in this video surrounds equitable community engagement, making space and time to benefit the community you’re working with. If you’re interested in this conversation and want to learn more about Carrie’s work you can access the video on Youtube.

Carrie Grant was the blog editor for issue 5 and the content coordinator for issue 6. She says about her time with SR, “My experience with Superstition Review very much launched my interest in the kinds of practical, professional communication I teach now.”

Intern Update: Asonta Benetti

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We are excited to celebrate past intern, Asonta Benetti, on her new travel review. Asonta has been working as a freelance travel writer since 2019 and has been featured in Words with Food & Wine, Bon Appétit, AFAR, VinePair, Business Insider, and more.

This new piece is all about Celebrity Silhouette, a high end ship Asonta describes as, “the perfect cruise for those looking for a big ship sailing with a higher caliber of dining, sans amusement park-style entertainment.” You can learn more about her experience aboard by reading the full review here.

Asonta was the nonfiction editor for both issue 2 and issue 3. Connect with Asonta on her LinkedIn profile to follow along with her journey.

Congratulations, Asonta! We are so proud of you!