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Karen Gernant
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Karen Gernant
Karen Gernant is professor emerita of Chinese history, Southern Oregon University. In addition to translating many of Can Xue’s works, she and Chen Zeping have translated fiction by Alai, Zhang Kangkang, Yan Lianke, Yi Zhou, Zhu Wenying, and several others.

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Vol. 83
Revenants, The Ghost Issue
Fall 2024
Coedited by Joyce Carol Oates and Bradford Morrow

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December 11, 2024
The transition was quick––that much she remembers––like slipping on dark ice hidden under a fresh sheath of snow––a flash of hang time without any landing. A comforting, delicate warmth enveloped her as the old body was discarded. Now she passes upward, up, up through gauze pads and cupboards, folded cotton smocks patterned with pale blue diamonds, through hoses and needles and layers of insulation and linoleum as if matter were mere memory.
December 4, 2024
I was educated in an old Sisters of Mercy convent school, where rumors of ghost nuns were ten a penny and were never especially convincing. However, when I was fourteen, I was in a math class and the teacher walked past me to the back of the room—I heard the movement of her long skirts and felt the displacement of air. A moment later, I put up my hand and looked behind me for help, but the teacher was still sitting ahead of me at her desk in front of the class.
November 27, 2024
Rae Armantrout   EXPRESSION   Give me your spurt   of verbs, [...]