fall / winter 2025

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Cover Art: Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi

Design & typesetting: Susan Nguyen

2026 HFR Fiction & Poetry Contest Folio: Mariah Gese, Hajjar Baban, Faye Wikner, Mai-Linh Hong

AWP Intros Journal Award: Ari Koontz, Camilo Loaiza Bonilla

Fiction: Andrew Plimpton, Molly Biskupic, Ivan Suazo

Nonfiction: Ellen Murray, Alexandra Teague, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Faith Palermo

Poetry: Nandi Comer, Thomas Kneeland, Arah Ko, Rachael Hershon, Lisa Mottolo, Em Palughi, Rachel Pittman, Kailey Tedesco, Robin Gow, Lyn Li Che, Christine Marshall, Joseph Dante, Jake Phillips, Emma Erlbacher, M. R. Mandell, Selena Spier, Alyx Chandler, Hannah V Warren, Susan Leslie Moore, Maddie Barone, Harrison Hamm, Brittany Adames

Translation: Umma Habiba (Quamrul Hassan, translator), Lyudmyla Diadchenko (Padma Thornlyre, translator), Rainer Maria Rilke (Sionnain Buckley, translator), Salha Obaid (Kathleen Davis Sullivan, translator)

Art: Cliff Tisdell, Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, Yuhan Cheng

Masthead: Editor-in-Chief Susan Nguyen, Managing Editor Brennie Shoup, Fiction Editor Chiara Naomi Kaufman, Nonfiction Editor Hana Saad, Poetry Editor Siobhan Jean-Charles, Translations Editor Max Wheeler, Art & Web Editor Lan Lesmeister, Social Media Manager Chris Du

Associate Editors Zêdan Xelef Almito, Tsong Chang, Negin Heydari, Hannah Palmisano, Madelynn Paz, Owen Pesavento, Jade Rose, Kellen Williams

Editorial Assistants Nana Atakora Appiah-Padi, Ashley Cameron, Kamille Escobar, Olivia Heuser, Paige Hochhalter, Cade Januszewski, Julia Keefer, Gladys Anette Sanchez Padilla, Court Taft, Robin Willett