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Editorial Changes and Thanks: As the spring 2026 academic year comes to a close, we first want to send a warm thank you to our Editor in Chief Brandon Hobson. Brandon has recently accepted an appointment as the David A. Burr Chair in Letters at the University of Oklahoma, and we wish him the best as he steps into this exciting and prestigious role. As for the future, Kelly Krumrie, the MFA's newest fiction professor, will be taking over as the Editor in Chief starting in the

Puerto del Sol's Winter 2026 61.1 issue now available! If you'd like to purchase one or more copies of Vol. 60.2, please visit our Submittable or contact us. Forever grateful to all of these phenomenal writers and poets. With Love, Puerto del Sol 2026 Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief, Brandon Hobson Managing Editors, Madelyn Parker & Myles Varga Prose Editor, Anna Coleman Poetry Editor, Camdyn Bass Assistant Poetry Editor, Tia Credle Assistant Fiction Editor, Joshua Ball Desig

It is with sadness we communicate the finishing of Ryan Habermeyer’s newest book, Necronauts (Stillhouse Press), and with it the termination of inhabiting Calypsee. Calypsee, a Fundamentalist Mormon town somewhere in the Escalante Desert of Utah, is a surreal world filled with many strange residents. Necronauts takes the form of obituaries for the townspeople, and we learn from the obituaries that these people are prone to killing themselves, each other, or otherwise dying s

Around a year ago, some of the editors and I decided it would be cool to make a one off chapbook. Our main constraint was exclusively publishing writers who live or have lived in the Southwest. What resulted is a snapshot of literary writing in the region. We always intended to upload it to the website, but like things do, it got put on the wayside. Until now. Feel free to download the PDF and take a look at the great work influenced by this region. -Myles, Managing Editor Sp

Puerto del Sol 's Winter 2026 60.2 issue now available! If you'd like to purchase one or more copies of Vol. 60.2, please visit our Submittable or contact us . Forever grateful to all of these phenomenal writers and poets. With Love, Puerto del Sol Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief, Brandon Hobson Managing Editors, Madelyn Parker & Myles Varga Prose Editor, Anna Coleman Poetry Editor, Camdyn Bass Assistant Poetry Editor, Tia Credle Assistant Fiction Editor , Joshua Ball Desi

Derrick Austin’s collection This Elegance (Boa Editions) works in conversation with many nuanced Black and Queer icons like Richmond Barthé and Cher, mixing them throughout as a medium with which the poet can sculpt or paint an image of the self. The poems hold the same quality as the “stillness” of a glacier. Language moves subtly in Austin’s poems but in massive ways; every “small” shift having worldly impact on the rest of the poems. Austin writes often to the concept of

front & back covers Puerto del Sol 's Spring issue 60.1 is here at last! Inside exists a wonderful selection of creative work, including...

Translation 1. 亲爱的： 今年的冬天格外的冷。我们的梅花不幸地谢了。 ...

One Road to the Sea If your daddy was a fisherman and his daddy was a fisherman and so on back to the old country, then further still on to the Creation, then you better love fish. Gaze into the eyes of your catch and feel the heft of your own holy soul. Salt of the earth, your people. Your love of fish must extend beyond the hooking and killing of them on to the cooking and consuming of them. Especially if your dear old Ma is known county wide for the mouthwatering allure o

We're thrilled to announce the launch of Puerto del Sol 's Fall 2024 issue! Isn't it gorgeous?! If you'd like to purchase one or more...