Stories Edited by Michele

Will This Make You Happy: Stories & Recipes from a Year of Baking

A hybrid memoir and cookbook that brings together over fifty recipes with a lyrical coming-of-age story about desire and dessert.

The Invention of Summer, by Xita Rubert

From Cake Zine’s “Forbidden Fruit” issue, a surreal short story by the winner of the 2024 Premio Herralde de Novela.

At the Bend of the Road, by Aube Rey Lescure

On the Camino de Santiago, a female pilgrim walks in solitude—utterly vulnerable, utterly free. Selected for Best American Essays 2022.

More Stories Edited by Michele

Dirt: A Special Issue of Guernica

“La Dolce Vita,” by Tanya Bush, Guernica

Sketches: “Placebo,” by Ezra Cohen; “Oxygen,” by Maddie Noris; “Ketamine,” by Bria Adimora Godley; “Naloxone,” by Zachary Siegel; “Time,” by Nitin K. Ahuja, Guernica

“Safety Town,” by Ilana Bean, Guernica

“Breathe In,” by Bronson Lemer, Guernica

“She Ain’t Gonna Last Very Long, Is She?” by Kayla Rae Whitaker, Guernica

“Charting the Land of Great Loneliness,” by Carin Clevidence, Guernica

“Lineal Gaps,” by Esther Hayes, Guernica

“Men I Hate,” by Lynette D’Amico, Guernica