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Ignacio Ortiz Monasterio

IGNACIO ORTIZ MONASTERIO‘s work has appeared in The Southern Literary Journal and Mexican magazines like Este País, Nexos, Luvina, Tierra Adentro, and Letras Libres. A recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship and other grants, his book Compás de cuatro tiempos, a collection of autobiographical stories, is available through Amazon. He has three more titles either under consideration or admitted for publication. The author would like to thank B.J. Carrick for his help editing “Fighting for His Brother.” He can be reached at: ignacioomq@gmail.com.

Contributor Bios for Issue 13 Summer 2018

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Issue 13 Summer 2018 HANIF ABDURRAQIB is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His first full length poetry collection, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, was released in […]

Recognition
by Ignacio Ortiz Monasterio

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[Editors’ Note: An embryonic version of this piece, titled “Me, the Other,” was originally published in Spanish in a small circulation magazine. The following translation is by Michael Parker-Stainback.] Finally, after years of anonymous toil, my talent has been publicly recognized. And no one—literally no one, except my cousin Vincent, Professor Thaddeus Lazarus and I—knows it. He—Vincent—turned […]

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Fighting for His Brother
by Ignacio Ortiz Monasterio

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This is how it happened. It was early in the evening. William was home, practicing his piano, when his older brother Rhodias and his squadron comrades, seven of them, arrived. The moment he heard the door and recognized voices, he shut off, afraid, and hurried to the sofa. “Did I stop on time?” he asked […]

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MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 13 Summer 2018

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INTERVIEWS Hanif Abdurraqib interviewed by Ruth Awad Joy Is Not Promised to You ESSAYS Joshua Bernstein The Gospel of Dearth Tom Larsen The Nightmare Next Door Jerome Richard Good and Decent People Janette Schafer The Miracle of Ordinary FICTION Eric Barnes Time Space Thomas Jacobs The Death of Z Ignacio Ortiz Monasterio Fighting for His […]

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