Stories & essays will be released on our website weekly starting in July/August.
Letter from the Editors
Aleksandra Hill, Kanika Agrawal, and Rowan Morrison
Interview with Cynthia Zhang
Questions by Aleksandra Hill
Excerpt: After the Dragons
Out from Stelliform Press, 8/19
Some Thoughts on Cuisine and Culture
Aliette de Bodard
Ketchup Pork Chops and Foreign Potatoes
C. H. Hung
“The Sunbird”
Iryna Iaroshenko
If you’ve never had thin-sliced pork chops fried in ketchup, trust me—you’re not missing out. Sweet-and-sour pork is one of my brother’s favorite dishes, as
Dark, small, withered, my mother’s fingers curve around the half onion. With her other hand she wields her knife and dices the onion into bits
So, I’m still perusing Irene Kuo’s Key to Chinese Cooking, and along the way, I happened on a chapter that talked about Asian noodles and
My first encounter with a work of desi science fiction was very much by accident. During my undergraduate studies at the Department of English at
As a transracially and transnationally adopted woman of color, I generally don’t enjoy “adoption” stories—with adoption as a defining character trait or plot point—by non-adoptee authors. But books have a wonderful ability to pleasantly surprise me when I’m least expecting it.
It’s important to accept that stories from one’s heritage can evolve–and that it’s ok to tell them in your own voice, to create something new while paying homage to your origins.
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