Guernica Magazine

“Wait. I remember you from high school,” he said once, when Lee was on top of him. “You’re that girl who married the janitor,” he said…

The author on her new memoir, ‘Sick’; searching for home; and her struggle to be heard by the medical establishment

The novelist, poet, and translator on the responsibilities we hold, the consequences of silence, and writing cross-genre

The author of How to Sit discusses her mixed genre, multi-generational essays about black girlhood, womanhood, trauma, and triumph

It’s unbearable, hilarious, ancient, and everywhere, and we shouldn’t be afraid

I begin coughing uncontrollably, a wave of it crests, and then stops. I touch the tape on the windows.

Uterine transplants are frontier science, but they offer hope of possibility for trans women and others seeking parenthood.

I know how to stay safe among lions in the wild. Around men of my own species, things feel more complicated.

A young Marine on being eighteen and deployed a few miles from the D.M.Z., meeting girls and waiting for ghosts