Small Axe 59 features essays by Kathleen DeGuzman, Matthew Chin, Joan Flores-Villalobos, and Robert Decker. This issue also showcases our 2018 Literary Competition winners Sassy Ross and Suzanne Persard (poetry), and Caroline Mackenzie and Ira Mathur (short fiction). Mafalda Nicolas Mondestin doubles as our cover artist and our visual essayist with her work, "Acts of Survival: Self-preservation and Holding Space." To conclude this issue, Katerina Gonzalez-Seligmann, Sharina Maillo-Pozo, and Zaire Dinzey-Flores engage in a vibrant discussion about Dixa Ramirez's Colonial Phantoms: Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas.
