Poetry Contributor
Angela Acosta is a bilingual Latina poet and scholar. She was recently nominated for Best of the Net and her work has appeared in Panochazine, Pluma, Toyon Magazine, and Latinx Audio Lit Mag. Her chapbook “Fourth Generation Chicana Unicorn” will be published by Dancing Girl Press in 2023. She is completing her Ph.D. in Iberian Studies at The Ohio State University where she studies the lives and works of early twentieth century Spanish women writers.
Poetry Contributor
Annika Gangopadhyay is an emerging writer. Her work appears in or is forthcoming in LIGEIA, The Incandescent Review, Blue Marble Review, and the borderline. In her spare time, she likes performing music and reading art criticism.
Poetry Contributor
Indu Parvathi is a teacher from Bengaluru, India. Her poetry appears in various literary magazines and platforms including The Punch Magazine, nether quarterly, Alipore Post, The Yearbook of Indian Poetry 2021, Narrow Road Journal, EKL Review and Usawa Literary Review’s December, 2022 issue. Her micropoem was published in Nightingale&Sparrow.
Fiction Contributor
Jenny Wong is a writer, traveler, and occasional business analyst. Her favorite places to wander are Tokyo alleys, Singapore hawker centers, and Parisian cemeteries. She resides in Canada near the Rocky Mountains and tweets @jenwithwords.
In the leadup to our sixteenth issue, ’starlight’, we shared a series of micropoems from our talented submitters:
Visual Art Contributor
Rachel Coyne is a writer and painter from Lindstrom, Mn.
Poetry Contributor
Sabrynne has taken to using poetry as a means of investigating and learning about the world she inhabits, and her work has been published in print and online nationally and internationally, appearing in the Greyrock Review, Bloom Magazine, Studio OUCH! Gazette, and others.
ISSN 2642-0104 (print)
ISSN 2641-7693 (online)
Founding Editor, Juliette Sebock
Centaur, firing an arrow Indu Parvathi
Light Meals Sabrynne Buchholz
Meteor Envy RC deWinter
Sky of Your Influence Angela Acosta
The Light Fantastic Frances Boyle
U n f o l d Kristiana Reed
Self Portrait as Luna Annika Gangopadhyay
Fiction
The Night Gardener Jenny Wong
Visual Art
Vision of a Sparrow Rachel Coyne
Vision of Songbird Rachel Coyne
Cover Image
Star Giants Rachel Coyne
In the leadup to poetry, we shared a series of micropoems across social media:
Letter from the Editor
Dear Reader,
starlight is the sixteenth issue of Nightingale & Sparrow Literary Magazine, and our final issue of 2022. As we put together this autumnal edition, it’s hard not to look back on the year and all we’ve had to be grateful for.
For instance, we had the opportunity to review some beautiful work for this issue. In our call for submissions, we prompted submitters with the following: “What do you see when you look up at the night sky? From astrology and lullabies to planetariums and Taylor Swift lyrics, we want to see your poems, stories, essays, and art that come face-to-face with the cosmos. Give us space; give us skies; give us starlight.”
The pages that follow bring this imagery to life. From the constellations of “Centaur, firing an arrow” by Indu Parvathi and Rachel Coyne’s “Star Giants” on this issue’s cover to Jenny Wong’s tale of “The Night Gardener,” there’s something for everyone to enjoy in the shooting star that is starlight.
With this issue and beyond, I and the N&S team are so thankful for our contributors, readers, customers, and other supporters who let us bring a new issue to life with each changing season.
We hope you enjoy—and we’re so excited to see what 2023 will bring.
Juliette Sebock
Editor-in-Chief, Nightingale & Sparrow
