Debut novelist Rebecca Lehmann is the author of The Beheading Game, released in March 2026, by the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House. Lehmann is an award-winning poet and essayist. She has an MFA in poetry from …
Meg Mullins is no stranger to the art of the short story. Her debut novel, The Rug Merchant, was conceived from “The Rug,” originally published by the Iowa Review and later anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2002. Though …
A Digital Roundtable Interview with Gabrielle Ione Hickmon, Lena Mahmoud, and Ellen van Neerven by Ayaat Ismail Read Lena Mahmoud’s “The Beguiling Ghoul” in Issue 18 of Miracle Monocle.
Debut novelist Jen Fawkes is the author of Daughters of Chaos, released in July 2024 by Overlook Press, an imprint of Abrams, in which a female Union spy discovers a secret society of magical women that spans millennia. The book opens in …
Rarely does the placement of a foreword or afterword itself become a stylistic or thematic element of a book, but Jeff Russell’s By The Time This Reaches You, new this year from Selva Obscura Press, is the exception to this …
The poet V. Joshua Adams recently published his debut collection of poetry, Past Lives, with Jackleg Press. Though written at different times, the poems appear in a singular volume and are divided into three sections: First Life, Second Life, and …
Kayla Rae Whitaker’s The Animators is a debut with the ambition and polish of a fourth or fifth book. Both a highly reverential (and referential) examination of the art of animation and an intimate exploration of women in the creative …
The editorial staff of Miracle Monocle was pleased to secure poems from the poet and activist, Melissa Tuckey, for publication in our eleventh issue. But we wanted to hear more from this writer. Fortunately, she was willing to share her …
CH: “Honey, Himalayan Salt” pushes boundaries with perspective, timeline, and structure. What exactly does innovation in writing look like and mean to you? RP: Modern art, with its sometimes shocking juxtapositions; or, being swept along a river of chance. CH: …
Please note: this item is also available as a digital download. Readers may enjoy sampling Melissa Tuckey’s work in Issue 11 of Miracle Monocle. The journal has also featured an …