Falling for Her
Erasure of Charlotte Brontë’s Villette
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Maggie Wolff is a poet, essayist, and Ph.D. student in English Studies. She lives in Florida and Illinois, and her work has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Reed Magazine, Gulf Stream Magazine, New Delta Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and other publications. She is the author of a chapbook, Haunted Daughters (Press 254, 2024).
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JC Alfier’s (they/them) poetic sensibilities run astride backroads and marginal regions, toward the déclassé—those haggards of rural and urban loneliness. They are the author of The Shadow Field (Louisiana Literature Press), and their work has appeared in Faultline, Fugue, New Delta Review, New York Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, Penn Review, River Styx, and Vassar Review. Their collage art is influenced by photo-artists Toshiko Okanoue, Francesca Woodman, Deborah Turbeville, and Katrien De Blauwer. Like Saul Leiter, they love imperfections, unguarded moments, and the belief that the real world has more to do with what is hidden than what is open.
