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Aster(ix) is a laboratory, a space where women writers of color can play and experiment. We celebrate our 10th anniversary with a double best-of issue; this issue will feature Poetry and Nonfiction,...

Atravesando features nineteen writers who reveal to us what we trade when we love or are made to love, when we move or are forced to move and how it feels when we experience an unexpected loss. This...

For whom do we become malleable? When do we break? When do we bend? These are some of the questions being asked and explored by 12 writers who were invited to respond, react to, be in conversation...

Best Of Hot Metal Bridge 2007-2020: An Aster(Ix) Anthology, Summer 2021Author: Tanya Shirazi, Aeriel Merillat, Willie KinardPublisher: Blue Sketch PressPublication Date: July 31, 2021Number of Pages:...

Aster(ix) presents, Best of Kweli, a compilation of 20 of the best prose and poems published in Kweli Journal (an online-only journal of experimental African American literature) in the past seven...

Cheryl Maddalena confronts the stereotypes of home life and leaves us reeling on the other side. In "CHILDREN, IT IS TIME WE HAD THE TALK," the domestic is turned on its head, reimagined and...

This issue was anchored by a conversation we had with Sandra Cisneros when she visited Pittsburgh. All the pieces air some dirty laundry. All the pieces in some way share an intimacy... All swing...

Edges: An Aster(ix) Anthology features writers, both established and emerging, whose prose and poetry embraces the themes of establishing, breaking, and defying edges. "she stares at the world, takes...

My mother loved the moon and would talk to me of their kinship, of her endless respect for the big pale planet and its pull. At night she'd stay out on the balcony, smoking and murmuring. The things...

The Kitchen Table Translation issue of Aster(ix) explores the connections between translation (the movement of texts) and migration (the movement of bodies). It features immigrant and diasporic...

The works in Mothers Unearthed show how mothers re-experience and witness environmental (and social) catastrophe. They excavate and reinscribe the meaning of protectors as mothers. The fear, anger...

The Ferrante Project : An Aster(ix) Anthology, October 2020Author: EMILY. CRUZ RABOTEAU (ANGIE. DIAZ, NATALIE.)Publisher: Blue Sketch PressPublication Date: Oct 16, 2020Number of Pages: 136...

The Fiction Issue : An Aster(Ix) Anthology, December 2021: An Aster(Ix) AnthologyAuthor: Ayse Papatya Bucak, Ivelisse RodriguezPublisher: Blue Sketch PressPublication Date: Dec 27, 2021Number of...

The Ghost Was Always The Machine: A Digital/Analog HybridAuthor: Rj WalkerPublisher: Blue Sketch PressPublication Date: Oct 15, 2021Number of Pages: 78 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The Poetry Issue: An Aster(ix) Anthology, Winter 2020Author: Marta Lucía VargasPublisher: Blue Sketch PressPublication Date: Feb 29, 2020Number of Pages: 76 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Adriana E. Rami rez takes on ex-boyfriends, the complex conversations between dogs and birds, as well as the scars of Junior High. Her poetry is about migration, about the ways, like swallows,...

What We Love arose from enacting a conversation, by bringing more voices to the table, where we are creating a home with good bones and impeccable intentions, so Aster(ix) can share writing that...