Jan Parker

Artist/author Jan B. Parker lives and works in Fuquay-Varina, NC. Her publishing credits include the 2009 Press 53 Open Awards Anthology, Main Street Rag Quarterly Journal, MoonShine...

The Calico Nation and Trading Moons

I walk carefully among all people because they may be related to me. As a matter of fact, Kathryn Cooper, a Cherokee Italian friend of mine, with whom I had the great pleasure of working on...

Danny Johnson

Danny Johnson is a writer of fiction that tends to follow in the tradition of Southern authors whose characters often represent the most disenfranchised in society, examining their...

How Hounds Scented Souths: Recounting Race, Ruin, and Resilience

Interspecies violence linked the empires of the western hemisphere, as well as the resistance efforts of Black people separated by thousands of miles and multiple centuries.

On Being an American

I learned something I could not have learned at home during that period in our history. I learned to be an American as opposed to being a “Negro in America” negotiating the restrictions...