“An Upset Place” by James Whorton Jr.. First published in The Gettysburg Review 34.2, April 2023. Featured in: The Best American Essays 2024

“Trapdoor” by Kathleen Alcott. First published in Harper’s Magazine, December 2023. Featured in: The Best American Essays 2024 Read at: https://harpers.org/archive/2023/12/trapdoor/

“As They Like It: Learning to Follow My Child’s Lead” by Nicole Graev Lipson. First published in Virginia Quarterly Review, 99.3, Fall 2023....

“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/