Andrew Furman, whose story “Crawling” appears in issue 73, is a Florida writer. He’s lived in the state for thirty years, writes widely about its people and its environment, and is (among many other things) the author of the memoir…
Editor’s Note: Commonspire My reach exceeded my grasp, but when I coined the title to this note in an essay on the Potomac Review website in October 2016, the neologism was meant to suggest a vision for the future that…
Editor’s Note: Cadence and Disclosure by Albert Kapikian Like other literary journals, a literary journal that issues out of a community college issues out of a collaboration between the arts and the humanities, between, that is, writers and editors, those…
AN INTERVIEW WITH WILHELM SITZ by Caleb Berer. Wilhelm Sitz, whose story “Release” appears in the spring 2023 issue of Potomac Review, writes mostly at a white desk in his bedroom. The desk, as Wilhelm tells me, is “not extremely…
AN INTERVIEW WITH KATHERINE VONDY By Caleb Berer Katherine Vondy, whose story “There’s a German Compound Word for Everything” appears in this issue of the magazine, is a writer, playwright, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. I recall being struck…
She'd always been the small one, the distressed one, the one hailed in minor chords. Who could blame her when she became the one who fidgeted, the one who cried, the one who stood oblivious in the mirror after bedtime,…
Ivy Grimes is a poet and fiction writer. She holds an MFA from the University of Alabama, and her work has appeared in The Cimarron Review, PANK, Pacific Review, The Broadkill Review, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. According to her twitter,…
Mia Herman is a writer and editor living in Queens, NY. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Atticus Review, Barren Magazine, Bellevue Literary Review, Third Coast, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Hofstra University and is Associate…
Lori D’Angelo earned her MFA from WVU in 2009. Since then, her short fiction has appeared in Stone’s Throw Magazine, Forge, Drunken Boat, Hamilton Stone Review, Juked and elsewhere. She is a fellow at Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and…
