Issue 160

Summer & Fall 2021

  • TriQuarterly expresses immense gratitude to guest editors Luther Hughes, Tara Stringfellow, Andre Perry, and Spring Ulmer for compiling these selections by Black writers and artists.


    Fiction Editor: Tara Stringfellow
    Nonfiction Editor: Andre Perry
    Poetry Editor: Luther Hughes
    Film Editor: Spring Ulmer
    Faculty Advisor: Susan Harris
    Director of Planning: Reginald Gibbons
    Copy Editor: Lys Ann Weiss
    Media Architect: Ken Panko
    Technical Advisors: Rodolfo Vieira, Gerard Panganiban, Garrett Gassensmith
    Supporting Editors: Sarah Minor, Vanessa Chan, Jennifer Companik,Erin Branning Keogh, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, Emily Mirengoff, Starr Davis, Daniel Fliegel, Joshua Bohnsack, Aram Mrjoian

    Staff: Adrienne Rozells, Amanda Vitale, April Yee, Ashton Carlile, Audrey Fierberg, Bonnie Etherington, Cecilia Rabess, Corey Miller, Dane Hamann, Elijah Patten, Ellen Hainen, Emma Fuchs, Erica Hughes, Erika Carey, Freda Love Smith, Gillian Barth, Grace Musante, Hillary Pelan, Ivis Whitright, Jameka Williams, Jonathan Jones, Laura Humble, Laura Joyce-Hubbard, Liz Howey, Marcella Mencotti, Megan Sullivan, Michele Popadich, Miranda Garbaciak, ML Chan, Myra Thompson, Natalie Rose Richardson, Nimra Chohan, Pascale Bishop, Patrick Bernhard, Prince Bush, Rebecca van Laer, Rishee Batra, Salwa Halloway, Susan Lerner

Image from Flee

Fiction Amber Officer-Narvasa Fiction Amber Officer-Narvasa

Mango Market

Most days I find the taste of mango between your legs, but other times it surprises where I least expect it, lingering on your fingertips or behind your knee, on the end of a sun-burnished strand of hair. Some days green and self-protective, plaintive and tart or sharp and haughty, other days almost rudely overripe, tender and gushing over my teeth.

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