Steve Gilmartin

Steve Gilmartin is the author of a chapbook of mistranslations of Emily Dickinson from the German, Comes Up to Face the Skies (LRL Textile Series, 2013). His fiction and poetry have appeared in many print and online journals, including and/or, Big Bridge, Café Irreal, Concis, Drunken Boat, Eleven Eleven, Mad Hatters’ Review, Otoliths, Rivet, and Unlikely Stories. He lives in Berkeley, California.

The Sitting

She has never seen snow but they said that her new dress has the same brilliant blue-white look. His hand rests lightly on her shoulder which is bare and blue, the color of a clear ...