Contributors

Kirstin Allio

Contributor History

Four Poems, Online 05-23-2017

Biography

Kirstin Allio is the author of the novel Garner (Coffee House) and the short story collection Clothed, Female Figure (Dzanc). She is a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize for First Fiction and has received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award, as well as fellowships from the Howard Foundation at Brown University and the MacDowell Colony.

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In Print

Conjunctions:70

Sanctuary: The Preservation Issue

Spring 2018
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Transfer

A Selected Text from Conjunctions:71, A Cabinet of Curiosity

by Laura van den Berg

November 15, 2018

After the sudden death of my employer, I was tasked with overseeing the transfer of his personal library. The books would travel from his studio in New York City to an arts foundation in Italy, where my employer had once enjoyed a long and productive stay, many years in the past.

The Malingerers

by Kristine Ong Muslim

November 13, 2018

8:00 p.m. in this perpetual night shift, and we talk again to the person inside the photo booth, you know, that one photo booth that tunnels all the way down—or up, depending on where you are—to that familiar place where all afterlife and underworld mythologies owe their artifice, the predictability of salvation they purport to deliver.

Days of Heaven

A Selected Text from Conjunctions:71, A Cabinet of Curiosity

by A. D. Jameson

November 8, 2018

A grown-up man not unlike me is trying to coax a struggling child into a box. That’s badly phrased and only a single sentence in we are in need of starting over.