Thanks to everyone who submitted during our 2025 Open Reading Period! We’ve reached our cap of submissions and will begin reading—we can’t wait. Thank you!
Amanda Gunn grew up just at the edge of the woods in southern Connecticut with two older brothers. She is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, as well as a PhD candidate in English at Harvard where she studies poetry, ephemerality, and Black pleasure. Her recent work appears in Poetry, Los Angeles Review of Books QuarterlyJournal, and Narrative Magazine.