Editor in Chief Stephanie G’Schwind opens the Spring 2026 issue of Colorado Review: “It’s mid-December, as we wrap up production on this issue, and the news cycle, often grim anyway, feels particularly so at the moment, creating an unfortunately familiar sense of disconnect: Adjacent to so much tragedy and sorrow, there is inevitably still joy. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the stories and essays in these pages echo this peculiar crux of our human experience.”
Contributors to this issue include Priscilla Hunnewell, R. X. Zhang, Kate Lister Campbell, Mellissa Sojourner, Darius Stewart, Keith Stahl, T. L. Khleif, Jordan Hamel, John Gallaher, Lana Reeves, Donald Platt, Byron Xu, Radha Marcum, Sarah Gambito, Apollo Chastain, Suphil Lee Park, Adam Edelman, Hee-June Choi, Akhim Yuseff Cabey, Bob Hicok, Andrew Israel Reed, and Mik Johnson.
G’Schwind closes the Editor’s Page: “We hope, of course, that you come to this issue from a space of joy rather than grief, but if you find yourself in that other territory, perhaps Darius Stewart’s experience offers something of a balm: ‘I was trying to write from there, not around it but through it.'”
