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Volume 26, Issue 1 (2025)

Welcome!

Welcome to the Fall 2012 issue of A Midwestern Review!

We are very proud of the high quality of work that was submitted to the magazine this semester and look forward to everyone reading the selected pieces that have been published. We congratulate the students whose work was chosen! We also give a special thanks to our hardworking staff who it made A Midwestern Review possible and aided in keeping its legacy alive. This edition’s particular cover was chosen for its representation of the over arching theme in the magazine: identity. The cover displays a scene of self-discovery that is continued throughout the magazine. The various poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art pieces tell stories of self-searching and discovering one’s own identity. We hope you enjoy the exploration of identity and the stories that each creative work shows.

Art

 

Self-Portrait
Hoang Nguyen

 

She Hath No Mercy
Ruth Poor

 

Woman in Green
Connor Gordon

 

Nonsense
Lily Bonwich

 

Choke
Carianna Arredondo

 

Morning
Lily Bonwich

 

Shade of Red
Hoang Nguyen

 

Serenity
Connor Gordon

 

Family Portrait
Ruth Poor

Creative Writing

 

The Captain Returns
Charles Ross

 

After the Heart Attack
Mark Jaskowiak

 

Dad Knows Best
Rachel Mazanec

 

No Use in Trying
Billy Scharfenberger

 

Drifters
Sally Leaf

 

Eating
Chase Hall

Feature

 

Interviewing Antonya Nelson
Caitlin Adams

Poetry

 

Stethoscope
Katherine Hill

 

Repetitions for My Mother
Carianna Arredondo

 

Humans Are Animals
Dillon Raidt

 

Charm Bracelet
Akanksha Chawla

 

All This Time
Carianna Arredondo

 

Fall 1998
Emmy Shiring

 

“Salvia, It’s All the Sage.”
Mackenzie Steckler

Editors

Editor in Chief
Meghan Shearer
Co-Editor
Kayla Kellerman
Design Editor
Kunkyong Lee
Poetry Section Editor
Stephen Shapiro
Poetry Writing Staff
Elise Lockwood
Prose Section Editors
Caitlin Adams (Nonfiction)
Abbey Roudebush (Fiction)
Prose Writing Staff
Samuel Johnson
Jiaxin Su
Kaitlyn Koby
Jennifer Dickman
Art Section Editor
Rebecca Buening
Art Staff
Kunkyong Lee
Faculty Advisor
Emily Doak
Cover
Photography by Hoang Nguyen