EDITOR’S NOTE

Welcome to Issue 166 of TriQuarterly, curated with care by our fantastic team of readers and genre editors. The writers and multi-disciplinary artists found in this issue tackle a vast range of scopes, themes, moods, energies, forms, and approaches to language. It’s always a special challenge to come up with patterns and words that unite them all, but I think that’s an ultimately good thing. 

This issue is expansive; it inhales and exhales. Strangeness lurks in unexpected places, taking the shape of a baby gator or a red jar or a proselytizing billboard.

Thank you to the TriQuarterly genre editors — Patrick Bernhard, Jennifer Companik, Emily Mirengoff, Laura Joyce-Hubbard, Starr Davis, Daniel Fliegel, and Sarah Minor — and to my assistant managing editor Kira Tucker for all the work you’ve put into curating this issue, and thank you to our readers. A lot of hands touch every issue of TriQuarterly, yielding a kaleidoscope of stories.

As always, my recommendation is to choose your own adventure when it comes to the order in which you read these pieces. Jump between genres. See what the kaleidoscope reveals.

– Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya