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Three Sisters Awards

Feature Folio

Saara Myrene Raappana

• Dante Attends a Basement Show
• Precautions Not Mentioned by the National Weather Service
• Poem For a Husband and Other Cryptozoological Beasts
• Alchemy at the Empire Mine
• ALF
• Encyclopedia of What to Expect from the Unemployment, Concise Edition
• Tutorial for the Lovelorn
• Marriage
• A Hero Saves a Damsel
• A Box of Rocks

Poetry

Melisa Cahnmann

• Parts of the Body That Can Outlast Fire

Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman

• Moonflowers

Ha Kiet Chau

• Circa 1969, Chồng 56
• Fragmentation of Rain

Nancy Christopherson

• Cynthia

Lisa Fay Coutley

• Nostophobia

Melissa Crowe

• Home Training

Carol Dorf

• Somehow I Have Found Myself
• Invisible: Light Drifts

Leila Farjami

• A Half Tooth
• Persian Alphabet: A Rescue

D. Dina Friedman

• Surveillance

Ellen Kombiyil

• The Bayonet Becomes (a Dance of) the Battered Wife

Angie Macri

• In Reeds

Beth McDermott

• I stood where I painted for a few hours

Emily Mohn-Slate

• "Are all your poems about your kids?"
• Nobody Here Knows Pittsburgh is Beautiful

Danika Paige Myers

• viii. Alberton Road Hike to Ruins of Oella Mill and St. Stanislas Church

Rachel Neve-Midbar

• Rowing
• I Don't Blame You

Kate Northrop

• Beyond Optimist Park Rises the Ferris Wheel

Rachel Marie Patterson

• Pumpkin

Ivy Raff

• To the Electric Burner My Boyfriend Bought in College
• Allegiance

Andrea Scarpino

• Meditation on Future Loss
• Prayer for an Alcoholic

ire'ne lara silva

• "el cuerpo es para usarlo"

Suzanne Swanson

• 5AM 5/13/2021
• Waving is her plan

Jane Zwart

• The Middle Part
• Like a bear, like a princess

Fiction

L. M. Davenport

• Shark T.V.

Jolene McIlwain

• The Coop

Kelly Pedro

• These Things Are Not Always Up to Us

Nonfiction

Telaina Morse Eriksen

• An Annotated Guide to Laundry

Laurie Granieri

• Nothing Left to Lose

Kerry Madden-Lunsford

• The Family Plan