cover art by Gabriella Radujko

Issue Illustrator

Jenn Ashton

Poetry

Kimberly Quiogue Andrews and Sarah Blake | "The Sea Witch as Joanna" and "The Sea Witch Gets Recurrent Vaginal Yeast Infections"

Halee Kirkwood | "Hookup With Sunlight and Sugar" and "Fruit Is Far Away From Here"

​Logan February | "Tiny Crimes of Personhood"

WLS | "A Greeting to a Possible Lover" and "Funeral for Now"

Sreshtha Sen | "In English Now" and "This is Not a Poem About My Mother"

J. David | "Self portrait as schizophrenic with gender dysphoria" and "Said the boy to the lion"

Alicia Hoffman | "Self-Portrait as Alexa at Dawn"

Hannah Nahar | "Pantoum for the Mars Rover, Not Singing" and "I'm Bored By All This Tenderness"

J. Xiang | "Flying over Tonopah, NV"

Leah Nieboer | "if you were looking for a reason to return—"

Alison Kronstadt | "Something in My Back Gives Out the Same Week Eight Abusers Make the News"
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Gavin Yuan Gao | "One time, my father, crying, drove into the dusk" and "Brimming"

Featured Interview: Lee Ann Roripaugh

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Art

Tatiana Garmendia

LiJune Choi

Sue-min Agnes Jung

Hannah Jeremiah

​John Gregory Brown

Reviews

Megan Peak | Girldom
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 Grace Shuyi Liew | Careen

​Call for submissions: Harrow

Deadline: June 15th

Up the Staircase Quarterly is seeking paranormal themed poetry and art for our summer issue, due out August 1st. See our "Submit" page for more details.