Folio: Family Secrets

To accompany our spring 2025 issue (22.1), we have curated a folio on family secrets (reviews and craft essays), after noticing that several pieces in the print issue include that theme. Elsewhere on our site, you can read a story by Shane Joaquin Jimenez, essays by Erika Gallion Velasquez and Lee Martin, and poems by James Ciano and Jalen Eutsey that are concerned with family secrets in one way or another.

Contents

• Jennifer S. Cheng, “Weaving a Ne(s)t for Our Ghosts”
• Sadia Hassan, “Muddying the Gulf: On Families and Secrets” (a review of Steven Espada Dawson’s Late to the Search Party)
• Jessica E. Johnson, “Knowledge and Responsibility: A Review of Morgan Talty’s Fire Exit”
• Shara Lessley, “Let Me Whisper in Your Ear: A Craft Essay”
• James Stewart III, “On Family History and Fiction” (a craft essay)