Issue 7: Winter/Spring 2023

From the Editor

On Being and On Being the Right Size, Part 4

by Rob Bowman

“Driven Nail Cure”

by Emma Aylor

On Being and On Being the Right Size, Part 3

by Rob Bowman

Mandy at the End of the World

by Jose Padua

On Being and On Being the Right Size, Part 2

by Rob Bowman

“After the Funeral,” “Cold Water,” “Forbidden Peak,” “The Farmhouse”

by E.J. Koh

On Being and On Being the Right Size, Part 1

by Rob Bowman

Give Me Shelter

by Wendy Murray

7-10-22

by Anne Germanacos

“sometimes, the light,” “No Elegy for the Magic,” “Now That I Know What I Had, I know,” “Sestina for Suzanne Lummis, Empress of Noir,” “On Creating a New Form (Maybe)”

by Lynne Thompson

“Homo Americanus,” “The Charm and the Dread,” “Betimes”

by Rodrigo Toscano

Pearl

by Tara Ison

The Voice of a Man Who Doesn’t Know How to Write: a Conversation with Stênio Gardel

by David Martinez

“Elegy with Two Trees,” “On Eschatology,” “Lines for the Winter Solstice,” and “Lines for the New Year (1)”

by Christopher Merrill

Night Bus

by Rory Say

“Gal,” “Say What,” Communion”

by Adele Elise Williams

“Angel’s Share,” “Mother of Muses,” “Do I Really Have Nothing At All,” “Secondhand God”

by MICHAEL CHANG

God’s Big Mouth

by Henneh Kyereh Kwaku

Essays/Nonfiction

Notes on Sleaze

by Daniel Torday

Coming April

Essays/Nonfiction

“That LA Bug”

by Louise Steinman

Diary

“On Being and On Being the Right Size, Part 5”

by Rob Bowman

Conversations

Natasha Trethewey Interviewed by Danzy Senna

by Danzy Senna

Fiction

“Big Plans”

by Shayne Langford

Poetry

“My Father Was a Firm Believer,” “Listening Wind”

by Jim Natal

Essays/Nonfiction

“Alias Intrepid”

by Melissa Haley

Air/Light is published quarterly in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California.

The Chowdhury Prize in Literature is an annual international mid-career prize for writers.