Cheryl Maddalena confronts the stereotypes of home life and leaves us reeling on the other side. ...

'In 2013 when we started Aster(ix), we didn't know what we were committing ourselves to, but for ...

Bradley J. Fest's debut work, The Rocking Chair, is a long poem that emerges from the detritus of...

In her debut full-length collection, Amy David writes with both humor and alacrity about the expe...

'I simply decided once and for all... to liberate myself from the anxiety of notoriety... thanks ...

Adriana E. Rami¿rez takes on ex-boyfriends, the complex conversations between dogs and birds, as ...

My mother loved the moon and would talk to me of their kinship,of her endless respect for the bi...

Atravesando: An Aster(ix) Anthology features nineteen writers, both established and emerging, who...

'I think sometimes writers conflate short stories with small stories. Stories have to be focused ...

'The works in Mothers Unearthed show how mothers re-experience and witness environmental (and soc...

'If you get La Cuarentena in a reading, you are called to accept an uncomfortable-but possibly tr...

Aster(ix) is a laboratory, a space where women writers of color can play and experiment. We celeb...