“Serious Play”: An Interview with Carol Guess & Aimee Parkison, co-authors of the story collection GIRL ZOO

I was first introduced to Carol Guess’s collaborative work while I was editor of Hayden’s Ferry Review and we published … More

“CisWorld,” a speculative essay by Torrey Peters

If there were only trans people in the world, would the monsters in horror movies be cisgender people? The … More

After the Surgeon Cuts You or the bone snaps in eight places, the world recognizes you as the vessel for … More

1 Secretary of State Dean Acheson actually greeted the invasion with relief, as it justified massive military appropriations that were … More

After crossing a vast inland sea in an ark called ANGEL HOUSE, Professor Squimbop docks on a distant shore. As … More

MY SKIN Because I dream of you as skin and door … I know you have been sublime … More

We editors love reading at HFR—and talking books, writing, and publishing around the clock—so we decided to catalog our selections … More

The explorer wakes up on a strange planet with no memory of how she got there, clawing at the … More

Down here, spider blue’s sour candy singsong plays out like confession. On my walk home, civilians cleanse into pulpits, … More

Amazon’s warehouses are warehouses of commerce. Every item an American might desire, shelved and organized from floor to ceiling … More

—after Craig Santos Perez [ra-ha-meem (womb):] i named my first star on a farmhouse roof in Kafr El Zayat … More

When newscaster Abby Waite is diagnosed with a potentially terminal illness, she decides to do the logical thing… break her … More