“1978” by Amy Margolis. First published in The Iowa Review, 53.1, Spring, 2023. Featured in: The Best American Essays 2024 Read at: https://iowareview.org/from-the-issue/volume-53-issue-1-spring-2023/1978

“If Not Now, Later” by Yiyun Li. First published as “What Gardening Offered After a Son’s Death” in The New Yorker, issue of...

“The Ones We Sent Away” by Jennifer Senior. First published in The Atlantic, August 7, 2023. Featured in: The Best American Essays 2024...

“If/Then” by Courtney Miller Santo. First published in New Letters, 89.3 & 4, Summer/Fall 2023. Featured in: The Best American Essays 2024 Read...

“The Anatomy of Panic” by Michael W. Clune. First published in Harper’s Magazine, May, 2023. Featured in: The Best American Essays 2024 Read...

“Woodstove” by Brock Clarke. First published in Five Points, 22.1, Spring, 2023. Featured in: The Best American Essays 2024 Read at: https://fivepoints.gsu.edu/issue/five-points-vol-22-no-1/

“Proxemics” by Jonathan Gleason. First published in Colorado Review, 50.1, Spring, 2023. Featured in: The Best American Essays 2024 Read at: https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/books/colorado-review-spring-2023/

“It’s Hard Out Here for a Memoirist” by Jerald Walker. First published in Prairie Schooner 97.1, Spring, 2023. Featured in: The Best American...

“The Lives of Bryan” by Jennifer Sinor. First published in The American Scholar, Summer, 2023. Featured in: The Best American Essays 2024 Read...

“Mere Belief” by Sallie Tisdale. First published in Harper’s Magazine, November, 2023. Featured in: The Best American Essays 2024 Read at: https://harpers.org/archive/2023/11/mere-belief/