Small Axe 56 includes essays by Kate Perillo, Minkah Makalani, and Tao Leigh Goffe as well as an excerpt from Angie Cruz's forthcoming novel, Dominicana. The issue also features a special section titled, "Contemporary Dominican Gender and Sexualities Studies," guest-edited by Maja Horn, with essays by Elizabeth S. Manley, Sharina Maillo-Pozo, Ana Maurine Lara, Danny Méndez, Rachel Afi Quinn, Dixa Ramírez, Carlos Ulises Decena, and Fátima Portorreal. And our visual essay, "Memories Afloat," showcases work by this issue's cover artist, Scherezade García.
In 2017, for the first time ever, the Small Axe Literary Competition was run in Spanish. This issue features the winners: for poetry, Noel Pérez García and Abraham Fidel Ortiz Lugo, and, for short fiction, Sarah Rubí Ortiz Rodríguez and Aquiles Sánchez Villaman.
Closing out the issue, D. Alissa Trotz and Gabrielle Jamela Hosein discuss Gaiutra Bahadur's Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture.
