Published by Washington & Lee University and supporting poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, comic artists, and translators since 1950, the online Fall 2025 issue of Shenandoah introduces a new series called “Catalyst,” profiling people whose craft — defined broadly — advances justice and equality. The first conversation in this series is “’Reading is a subversive act’: Shenandoah interviews Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor – Elect Ghazala Hashmi.”
The issue also features an interview with visual artist Kristen Mills and Hope Prize Winner Isaac Kanyinji’s “A 2019 Survey on How People Imagine Themselves Dying.”
The rest of the issue includes fiction by N.S. Ahmed, leena aboutaleb, Muhammad El-Hajj (trans. Yasmine Zohdi), Ibrahim Babátúndé Ibrahim, Jeneé Skinner, Swati Sudarsan; poetry by Tran Tran, Sayuri Matsuura Ayers, Apollo Chastain, Ali Choudhary, Prosper Ifeanyi, Dabin Jeong, Nicole W. Lee, Kabel Mishka Ligot, Susanna Rich, River, Sarp Sozdinler, Para Vadhahong, Teri Vela, nonfiction by Nancy Bell, Youssef Rakha, Tracy Rothschild Lynch, Christy Tending, Wenyi Xiao; and comics by Mariah Gese, Joel Holub, Parisa Karami, and Audrey Odang.
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