In residency at Monson Arts, Maine
“I had to ask myself: is it fair to view the South as a place that lacks what I need?”
FEATURES
The Local Voice, “Chef Irish Fe Leigh’s Skillet Brings Manila to Mississippi,” May/June 2026 (+digital version)
The Local Voice, “We Are the Promised Land: An Inheritance, a Future, an Altar,” May/June 2026 (+digital version)
The Local Voice, “Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Night Owl Illuminates the Dark,” March 2026 (+digital version)
The Local Voice, “Beth Ann Fennelly’s The Irish Goodbye and the Art of Truth-Telling,” February 2026 (+digital version)
BOOK REVIEWS
On Elsa Valmidiano’s The Beginning of Leaving for Marías at Sampaguitas, June 2023
On Hari Alluri’s Our Echo of Sudden Mercy for Marías at Sampaguitas, October 2022
BLURBS
When the Forest Finds You by Lannie Stabile
Variant Literature, 2024
Lannie Stabile delivers us the director’s cut: deleted scenes and unreleased epilogues, excavated truths about characters and cast, alternate endings that at first promise different—but bring us to the same dizzying end. With precision and sensitivity fine-tuned for the darkroom, Stabile takes control of narrative, showing us how horror stories of lost autonomy have permeated media, yet what comes after, the complexity—and often isolation—of survival remains obscure. When the Forest Finds You is what many protagonists experience off-screen, between scenes, after credits have rolled—in real life. This chapbook is both a portrait of survivors’ solitude and promise from Stabile to her speakers and readers: no matter how old the wound, we navigate the labyrinth of recovery together.