THE ROADRUNNER REVIEW
Spring 2020
Issue 4
Cover Art
Ryota Matsumoto, Still from Cities of Inextricable Velocities
Hybrid
Fiction
Joel Fishbane, Audition Tips for True Professionals
University of British Columbia
Winner of the 2020 Roadrunner Fiction Prize
Melissa Knopp, Rattlers
La Sierra University
Adraesteia Wong, I Am Arachne
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Misty Yarnall, Postpartum
Monroe Community College
Leia Abiador, Rice
La Sierra University
Adrian Markle, Surface Tension
University of Exeter, Cornwall
Nonfiction
Devaki Devay, Now the Birds are Dead
University of California, Berkeley
Winner of the 2020 Roadrunner Nonfiction Prize
Katherine DeGilio, My Father’s Nine Deaths
Southern New Hampshire University
Lydia Albonesi, St. Pierre and St. Catherine
Emerson College
Harrison Pyros, Cancer Root
University of California, Santa Barbara
Poetry
Michael Akuchie, Hemorrhage
University of Benin, Nigeria
Winner of the 2020 Roadrunner Poetry Prize
Ana Pugatch, Maternal
George Mason University
Logan Davis, Behind the Altar: Easter Sunday 2019
University of Central Missouri
Caitlin Cacciatore, Latin Roots
Baruch College, NYC
Jonny Black, If I Die, and I Will
University of California, Riverside
Odukoya Adeniyi, Aubade to My Dead Father
Obafemi Awolowo University
Zachary Snyder Smith, The Bur Oak
The College at Brockport, SUNY
Kuo Zhang, A Wuhan Family’s Chinese New Year
University of Georgia
Masthead
Literary Editors
James Michael M. Banta
Ashli-Jane Benggon
Alyssa K. Garcia
J. Ethan Hoffman
Cassandra Norman
Web Editor
Jackie Hernandez
Editor-in-Chief
Sari Fordham