Contributors

Heather Altfeld

Contributor History

Obituary for Dead Languages, Conjunctions:70
A Scribe from the Double-House of Life, Conjunctions:72
The Magical Substratum, Conjunctions:73

Biography

Heather Altfeld is a poet and essayist living in Northern California. Her first book of poetry, The Disappearing Theatre, won the Poets at Work Book Prize, selected by Stephen Dunn. She is the recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s 2017 Robert H. Winner Award and the 2015 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. “Obituary for Dead Languages,” her contribution to Conjunctions:70, Sanctuary: The Preservation Issue, was selected for The Best American Essays 2019. Her second book of poetry, Post-Mortem, is forthcoming from Orison Books.

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In Print

Conjunctions:74

Grendel’s Kin: The Monsters Issue

Spring 2020
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Four Poems

by F. Daniel Rzicznek

June 30, 2020

The bones and crosses left out for him an emerald

Cicada dying attended by ants the emperor’s pleading face

All over town I dragged it behind me like a wing

New Sisters

A Selected Text from Conjunctions:74, Grendel’s Kin: The Monsters Issue

by Selena Anderson

June 29, 2020

Quisa had fallen into the habit of disappointing herself, and then disappointing herself a little more, with the words she let slip from her mouth. She kept talking to people in this hungry, intimate way, as if they too had spent the time of their lives in their heads and read the warning labels too closely and worried irrationally about their lymph nodes. Accidental confessions are what these amounted to.

Thrown

by Roy Kesey

June 23, 2020

Four cops come. Both parents are arrested, D&D. The children—William, six, and Stephanie, three—are taken by CPS.

The neighborhood will be quiet for almost two weeks.