Issue #1

(released March 2008)
This was our debut issue of Up the Staircase which was released on March 22, 2008. Each writer was handpicked personally by the editors. These writers are our friends and our family of amazing and talented writers.

**Featured writer: Sophia Argyris. Four poems, including "Reflections of Anna,""At the Edge of Silence,""A Sense of Falling," and "Fighting the Seasons," a detailed interview with the poet, and an exclusive excerpt of her upcoming novel Am I the Air?

**Poetry in this issue:

David Blaine, "All the Sounds Have Stopped"
Amanda Joy, "The Empty Room"
Tatevik Khurshudyan, "Special Breakfast"
Frank Reardon, "A Sunflower Grows in England"
Christian Ward,"The Projectionist's Daughter"
Adam "Bucho" Rodenberger, "Nude Unbending a Stare-Case"
Shawn Sturgeon, "Flying"
S. P.,"Seducer"
Parris ja Young, "The Problem with Silence"
Nadine Sellers, "Savagely"


**Fiction in this issue:


Nadine Sellers, "A Willow or Two"
Dakota James, "State of Mind"
Parris ja Young,"Hunk Mama"
Christi Fordham, "Haiti"


**Essay in this issue:

Lori Fordham, "The Death of the True Woman: Interpreting Suicide in The Awakening"