THE ROADRUNNER REVIEW
Summer 2020
Issue 5
Maria WickendenCover Art
Natalie Bradford, Push Pull, pen on paper
University of Western Michigan Frostic School of Art
Fiction
Kayla Rutledge, The Laundromat in Apartment 8B
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Despy Boutris, Burials
University of Houston
Timothy Norton, A Holy Covenant
Old Dominion University
A.N. McQuillan, Spider’s Nest
Evergreen State College
Maria Wickenden, Rats
Carleton University
Shreyonti Chakraborty, The Possible Outcomes of Sharing
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Nonfiction
Kristen Read, Carbon-based Lifeforms for Carbon Emission Control
Brigham Young University
Maria Santa Poggi, My First Color
Marymount Manhattan College
Poetry
Ty Halton, When It Came
California State University, Bakersfield
Adra KS, To Be a Poetess
Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University
Isaac George Lauritsen, The Rooster
University of New Orleans
Q.M., Look at This Young Foreigner
University of Edinburgh
Kolade Olaiya, Babatunde; Our Father Has Returned
East Tennessee State University
Katherine Martini, Living Will
Rutgers-Newark University
Olúwádáre Pópóola, Africanah
Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta
Alexis Rubertino, There Will Be More (Time to Learn)
Bowling Green State University
Sam Kealhofer, Riddles for the End of the World
Mississippi State University
Autumn Connor, Day Six of Quarantine
Binghamton University
Winner: High School Writing Competition
Amanda Kay, drought
Santa Clara High School
Masthead
Literary Editors
Samantha Haddad-Scott
Melissa Knopp
Michelangelo Marenco
Alexa Trujillo
Nonfiction Editor
Ashli-Jane Benggon
Fiction Editor
J. Ethan Hoffman
Web Editor
Jackie Hernandez
Editor-in-Chief
Sari Fordham