evan lavender-smith

Volume four, issue two of the Heavy Feather Review literary journal.

Cover by Sebastiano Ranchetti.

Fiction by Caren Beilin, Kathy Fish, Molly Gaudry, Janalyn Guo, Evan Lavender-Smith, Lisa Locascio, Daniel Miller, Leslie Parry, Jen Pelto, and Zach VandeZande. Poetry by Partridge Boswell, Jamison Crabtree, Nicholas Grider, Satoshi Iwai, Jane Lewty, Marco Maisto, Ryan Mills, Rodney Nelson, Meghan Privitello, Philip Schaefer, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. Creative nonfiction by Salvatore Pane and D. E. Steward. Comics by Disa Wallander and Patrick Williams. Photography by David Braughler.

Praise for Leslie Parry, featured chapbook contest winner:

“Kiddo is a knockout. The language paints the set for this story with natural, assured strokes: cars are the color of licorice and goons get slugged and panic fizzes. Kiddo is a mystery full to the brim. Family, friendship, mistaken identity, poverty and the allure of Old Hollywood combine to ensure that every sentence is packed with intrigue and heart.” —Jac Jemc, author of A Different Bed Every Time