THE ROADRUNNER REVIEW

Spring 2021

Issue 7

 

Cover Art
Kristen Phipps, Junk Drawer
Acrylic, housepaint, and marker on cradled wood panel
Ohio State University
Winner of the 2021 Roadrunner Cover Art Prize

Fiction 

Yvette Naden, A Cello of Wax
University of York
Winner of the 2021 Roadrunner Fiction Prize

Ebuka Prince Okoroafor, Homing
Imo State University

Holley Cornetto, Sushi for One
Lindenwood University

Precious Binafegha, Love Hesitates
University of Port Harcourt, Choba

Bruce Geddes, Today I Decided to Dress Like a Chicken
University of British Columbia

Shedrack Opeyemi Akanbi, The Taste of Bugs
University of Ilorin

 

Nonfiction

Sarah Chavera Edwards, Mujeres Divinas/Divine Women
Arizona State University
Winner of the 2021 Roadrunner Nonfiction Prize

Emily Clarke, Language of Loss
University of California, Riverside

Kari Despain, Planting Seeds in the Desert
University of Kansas

Brook McClurg, A Case is a Wave
Texas Tech

Emalyn Remington, Shotgun
University of Maine at Farmington

Esther Keller, Holding Up My Trophy
Cayuga Community College

Navami Shenoy, Astronaut
Ohio Wesleyan University

 

 Poetry

Michelle Garcia Fresco, Places my hair stayed when I didn’t
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Winner of the 2021 Roadrunner Poetry Prize

Jessica Mehta, When we talk of stolen sisters
University of Exeter, England

Christiana Castillo, Fronteras
University of Michigan

Divya Mehrish, Color Wheel
Stanford University

Sabrina Almeida, Rain On
University of Toronto

Shringarika Pandey, For Fistfights
University of Delhi, India

 Desiree Santana Hensley, Teeth of the Wind
Old Dominion University

Teddy O’Brien, The Innocents
Stanford University

Tam Nguyen, In all sacred words
Fulbright University Vietnam

Sarah Sassoon, Sixth Clove
  Bar Ilan University

Katelyn Moorman, In her garden
University of Wyoming

Animashaun Ameen, What if God is a Metaphor for Longing?
University of Ilorin

 Masthead

Literary Editors

Elisabeth Breen
Julia Geriguis
Andrea M. Juck
Jessica Mwangi
Ciara Rader
Kevin Thona

Senior Literary Editor

Melissa Knopp

Editor-in-Chief

Sari Fordham