"If you get La Cuarentena in a reading, you are called to accept an uncomfortable-but possibly transformative-moment of suspension. While everything seems ...

"I simply decided once and for all... to liberate myself from the anxiety of notoriety... thanks to this decision, I have gained a space of my own, a ...

“In 2013 when we started Aster(ix), we didn’t know what we were committing ourselves to, but for the past five years the journal has been ...

Adriana E. Ramírez takes on ex-boyfriends, the complex conversations between dogs and birds, as well as the scars of Junior High in The Swallows. ...

Aster(ix) is a laboratory, a space where women writers of color can play and experiment. We celebrate our 10th anniversary with a double best-of issue; ...

Longing is inextricable from desire, pain, grief. We can long to return to a past, one where our fears, preoccupations, sorrows feel opaque in ...