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
Stretched Noodles; A Strong Mind
Peiyun Xie
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
If a Car is Traveling West Going 60 Miles Per Hour...
Mackenzie Steckler
Crops on Virginia Plantations
Nicky Chokran
Flight After Fall A Tribute to Sappho
Jessica Maginity
“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