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      • Infused Proverbs
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      • what's she waiting for
      • The Red String
      • The Blue Girl
      • Ink Forms
      • Sylas Yarad
      • Origamy
      • Abstraction
      • I Wish You Loved Me Like The Mountains
      • Bathroom Hash
      • Desperation
      • Impact
      • when colored bulbs turn to white lights
      • Red Lavenders bloom just the same
      • Rust Belt Blues
      • The Badass
      • The Reader's Reverie
      • Echos
      • The Dance Becomes Your Very Own
      • The Pink Elephant
      • Sunset in Kamakura
      • Sleepy Hollow
      • An American Sonnet to Dying Flowers
    • Our Metamorphic Stories (2024) >
      • Editors' Note (2024)
      • Fifty-two Minutes
      • The Day I Love Myself More Than You
      • Shadows
      • Bloodlust: The Metamorphosis
      • Canvas
      • picture this
      • rite of passage
      • Bathroom Floor
      • Cat
      • M
      • 삼년상 (Sam-Nyun-Sang)
      • Valley
      • I'm More Than
      • I'm Not a Toy
      • Rising Phoenix
      • Grow
      • red :3
      • Green Cousins
      • The Lighthouse
      • Sea of Plants/Planets
      • Kitty's Poem
      • Fin
      • tomie
      • Library Class
      • Our Lie
      • Weavers
      • An Old Tree
      • A World Without You
      • All Must Die
      • Flower
      • The Canoe
      • It's Scary Up Here
      • Beautiful Things
      • Ma Vie
      • The Final Wall
      • Hosts
      • Waqe Zhiga
      • two faced feelings
      • imposter syndrome
      • Feminism
      • Pretty Girls
      • It's Just Us
    • See You in Another World (2023) >
      • Editors' Note (2023)
      • Voices of the Summer Night
      • Lightning Glut
      • All The Little Things
      • From a Distance
      • Confined
      • The Night Hours
      • A Contrapuntal for the Girl in My Dreams
      • Go Back (before they do)
      • Snippet of Thought
      • The Darkness
      • Her Nature
      • I Listen
      • Stranger In The City
      • What Music Does
      • Fallen Stranger
      • The Black Dress
    • A Fire of Words (2022) >
      • Editors' Note (2022)
      • The Floor Wallows Lower
      • Cornflowers
      • Erudite
      • That One Morning
      • mom, im afraid
      • selenophilia
      • Roses and Rainbows
      • If a poisonous snake bites itself, will it die?
      • Rochester
      • Crown of Branches
      • Stairs to the Sea
      • A Poem Written Entirely From Advertisements
      • Pyromania
      • silhouette of a bird against winter stars
      • thunderstorm in the bedroom
      • A Night in Recovery
      • sleeping gypsie
      • paper dolls&goodbyes
      • We Are Women
      • Village Air
      • Sunshine's Laughter
      • the male gaze
      • The Forensic Entomologist
      • Lacking
      • Drowning
      • Adelie
    • Create the Wonders We Dream (2021) >
      • Editors' Note (2021)
      • Zove
      • I'm Sorry
      • Fake Smile
      • My Friend the Balloon
      • Eyes Intertwined
      • Perfect
      • Only a Moment
      • A Dangerous Word
      • My Dreams
      • The Last 100 Meters
      • The Green Void (Villanelle)
      • The Whimsical Galaxy (Sestina)
      • The Silent Kindness
      • Pressure
      • Table on the Hill
      • The Yukon
      • The Shore
      • Repentance
      • Her and I
      • Infections of the Soul
      • Threads
      • Dream of a High Schooler
      • Empty
      • little flame
      • scars
      • black and white
      • The Cat
      • Joy
      • Sweet Honey Bee Stings
      • If There Were One Day
      • Delete
      • Our Hearts to Central Vietnam
      • him or Him?
      • Ocean
      • Es Llaner Beach
      • Sewn Together
      • Rain
      • Yes, I Like
      • The Legacy of the Moon
      • The Wind Whimpers
      • From Here I See
      • To Feel Clean
      • Red
      • Survival
      • Substance
      • Golden Lies
      • Midnight Tango
      • Ode to a Spleen
      • Modern Siren
      • The Night's Diamond Tears
      • Beats In Double Time
      • A Day in the Flight
      • Carved By Venus
      • Lifeline
      • Everest
      • Education
      • How Much of Reality Can Be Observed
      • What is a Spork
      • What is the difference between love and in love
      • What would you have wanted? me to say
      • Planet Caravan
      • The Journey of a Minute
      • The Circus of Scars
      • Mosaic
      • Color
      • Love and Acceptance
    • Colors I Never Knew Existed (2020) >
      • Editors' Note (2020)
      • Two Weeks' Notice
      • A Curious Man
      • An Eternity Swathed in Cobwebs
      • Hidden Memories: A Villanelle
      • A Better Place
      • Conscription
      • Just Breathe
      • Akko
      • The Hungry Dark
      • And Then Something Shuffled
      • Deodorants are a Girl's Best Friend
      • The Old House
      • Willow
      • Perfection
      • She Will Be Queen
      • Nothing But Space
      • a wicked thing
      • Anthony
      • Cheesecake
      • Za
      • Coco
      • Coexist
      • der böse Mann
      • Feeding
      • Catharsis
      • I HAD TO RENAME THIS POEM DUE TO COPYRIGHT ISSUES
      • For All The Kids Who Were Told They'd Never Make It... and Believed This
      • i Will Always Love You
      • Our 4
      • Rainy Day
      • Space
      • The Ocean Cares Nothing of Man
      • Sickly Sweet Love
      • I call the eating disorder hotline
      • Bright and Sunny Day
      • Grandma in the Moon
      • Interminable Education in Seventeen Syllables
      • Macrocosmic Creation
      • Middle Class Psyche
      • My Sister
      • From a Park Bench
      • Rain
      • A Recollection of Our Memories
      • Sadie Got Me in My Feelings
      • Uranium Rose
      • When I Grow Up - Paige Rhoads
      • Who am I?
      • 49-53
    • Words Become Reality (2019) >
      • Editors' Note (2019)
      • Bear Down: A Sestina
      • Kidnapped & Killed
      • Lemonade
      • Rise
      • Someone Who always Pays
      • A Simple Story
      • The King's Battle
      • Aftermath
      • Aging Population
      • Can we still be friends?
      • Carpe Diem
      • Coffee
      • Day to Day
      • Do Not Hold me Closer, Let me Go
      • Gift of Time
      • Love Everlasting
      • A Message to the Youth
      • Peach
      • Waiting for the Bell
      • Randy
      • The River & The Earth
      • The Show Goes On
      • Summer Love
      • Sundae
      • West Coast Wishing
    • Watch Every Second (2018) >
      • Editors' Note (2018)
      • White
      • eleven eleven
      • Growing Up
      • Claustrophobia
      • The Cage
      • The Soldier's Return
      • Spacing Out
      • Depression
      • Mona Lisa
      • Childhood Cancer
      • Puberty
      • Languish
      • A Magical Ending
      • Life
      • Barter
      • Descent into Space
      • Red Water
      • The Short Film
      • Starting Line
      • And I Am From?
      • Such a Foreign Concept
      • You Say
      • My Creator
      • The Most Common Illness
      • Reflection in Time
      • Ode to My Mirror
      • Time
      • See Me
      • Consequences
      • Where I'm From
      • Unstoppable
    • Her Voice Remains (2017) >
      • Editors' Note (2017)
      • Alone in the Halls
      • Ideal Love
      • Cliff at Dusk
      • I Will Never Forget You
      • Lost
      • OCD
      • Cannibal Animal
      • A Poem for Grandpa 2
      • Solvent
      • Risky
      • Shannen and Graces’ Long Road
      • Dear Bubbles
      • A Tree in the Air
      • Losing Myself
      • ABC's Poem
      • My Glorious Flight
      • Birth Giver
      • Flat Line
      • Eternal Beauty
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    • Margins of the Mind >
      • Editor's Note (2025)
      • The Eternal
      • Mask Gleaners
      • The COVID Nightmare
      • Cafe Terrace at COVID Capacity
      • Behind the Falling Window
      • premature assurance
      • A Walk On the Tears (Of Mother Earth)
      • Infused Proverbs
      • To Dreams, To Dappled Light, and To a Stone
      • what's she waiting for
      • The Red String
      • The Blue Girl
      • Ink Forms
      • Sylas Yarad
      • Origamy
      • Abstraction
      • I Wish You Loved Me Like The Mountains
      • Bathroom Hash
      • Desperation
      • Impact
      • when colored bulbs turn to white lights
      • Red Lavenders bloom just the same
      • Rust Belt Blues
      • The Badass
      • The Reader's Reverie
      • Echos
      • The Dance Becomes Your Very Own
      • The Pink Elephant
      • Sunset in Kamakura
      • Sleepy Hollow
      • An American Sonnet to Dying Flowers
    • Our Metamorphic Stories (2024) >
      • Editors' Note (2024)
      • Fifty-two Minutes
      • The Day I Love Myself More Than You
      • Shadows
      • Bloodlust: The Metamorphosis
      • Canvas
      • picture this
      • rite of passage
      • Bathroom Floor
      • Cat
      • M
      • 삼년상 (Sam-Nyun-Sang)
      • Valley
      • I'm More Than
      • I'm Not a Toy
      • Rising Phoenix
      • Grow
      • red :3
      • Green Cousins
      • The Lighthouse
      • Sea of Plants/Planets
      • Kitty's Poem
      • Fin
      • tomie
      • Library Class
      • Our Lie
      • Weavers
      • An Old Tree
      • A World Without You
      • All Must Die
      • Flower
      • The Canoe
      • It's Scary Up Here
      • Beautiful Things
      • Ma Vie
      • The Final Wall
      • Hosts
      • Waqe Zhiga
      • two faced feelings
      • imposter syndrome
      • Feminism
      • Pretty Girls
      • It's Just Us
    • See You in Another World (2023) >
      • Editors' Note (2023)
      • Voices of the Summer Night
      • Lightning Glut
      • All The Little Things
      • From a Distance
      • Confined
      • The Night Hours
      • A Contrapuntal for the Girl in My Dreams
      • Go Back (before they do)
      • Snippet of Thought
      • The Darkness
      • Her Nature
      • I Listen
      • Stranger In The City
      • What Music Does
      • Fallen Stranger
      • The Black Dress
    • A Fire of Words (2022) >
      • Editors' Note (2022)
      • The Floor Wallows Lower
      • Cornflowers
      • Erudite
      • That One Morning
      • mom, im afraid
      • selenophilia
      • Roses and Rainbows
      • If a poisonous snake bites itself, will it die?
      • Rochester
      • Crown of Branches
      • Stairs to the Sea
      • A Poem Written Entirely From Advertisements
      • Pyromania
      • silhouette of a bird against winter stars
      • thunderstorm in the bedroom
      • A Night in Recovery
      • sleeping gypsie
      • paper dolls&goodbyes
      • We Are Women
      • Village Air
      • Sunshine's Laughter
      • the male gaze
      • The Forensic Entomologist
      • Lacking
      • Drowning
      • Adelie
    • Create the Wonders We Dream (2021) >
      • Editors' Note (2021)
      • Zove
      • I'm Sorry
      • Fake Smile
      • My Friend the Balloon
      • Eyes Intertwined
      • Perfect
      • Only a Moment
      • A Dangerous Word
      • My Dreams
      • The Last 100 Meters
      • The Green Void (Villanelle)
      • The Whimsical Galaxy (Sestina)
      • The Silent Kindness
      • Pressure
      • Table on the Hill
      • The Yukon
      • The Shore
      • Repentance
      • Her and I
      • Infections of the Soul
      • Threads
      • Dream of a High Schooler
      • Empty
      • little flame
      • scars
      • black and white
      • The Cat
      • Joy
      • Sweet Honey Bee Stings
      • If There Were One Day
      • Delete
      • Our Hearts to Central Vietnam
      • him or Him?
      • Ocean
      • Es Llaner Beach
      • Sewn Together
      • Rain
      • Yes, I Like
      • The Legacy of the Moon
      • The Wind Whimpers
      • From Here I See
      • To Feel Clean
      • Red
      • Survival
      • Substance
      • Golden Lies
      • Midnight Tango
      • Ode to a Spleen
      • Modern Siren
      • The Night's Diamond Tears
      • Beats In Double Time
      • A Day in the Flight
      • Carved By Venus
      • Lifeline
      • Everest
      • Education
      • How Much of Reality Can Be Observed
      • What is a Spork
      • What is the difference between love and in love
      • What would you have wanted? me to say
      • Planet Caravan
      • The Journey of a Minute
      • The Circus of Scars
      • Mosaic
      • Color
      • Love and Acceptance
    • Colors I Never Knew Existed (2020) >
      • Editors' Note (2020)
      • Two Weeks' Notice
      • A Curious Man
      • An Eternity Swathed in Cobwebs
      • Hidden Memories: A Villanelle
      • A Better Place
      • Conscription
      • Just Breathe
      • Akko
      • The Hungry Dark
      • And Then Something Shuffled
      • Deodorants are a Girl's Best Friend
      • The Old House
      • Willow
      • Perfection
      • She Will Be Queen
      • Nothing But Space
      • a wicked thing
      • Anthony
      • Cheesecake
      • Za
      • Coco
      • Coexist
      • der böse Mann
      • Feeding
      • Catharsis
      • I HAD TO RENAME THIS POEM DUE TO COPYRIGHT ISSUES
      • For All The Kids Who Were Told They'd Never Make It... and Believed This
      • i Will Always Love You
      • Our 4
      • Rainy Day
      • Space
      • The Ocean Cares Nothing of Man
      • Sickly Sweet Love
      • I call the eating disorder hotline
      • Bright and Sunny Day
      • Grandma in the Moon
      • Interminable Education in Seventeen Syllables
      • Macrocosmic Creation
      • Middle Class Psyche
      • My Sister
      • From a Park Bench
      • Rain
      • A Recollection of Our Memories
      • Sadie Got Me in My Feelings
      • Uranium Rose
      • When I Grow Up - Paige Rhoads
      • Who am I?
      • 49-53
    • Words Become Reality (2019) >
      • Editors' Note (2019)
      • Bear Down: A Sestina
      • Kidnapped & Killed
      • Lemonade
      • Rise
      • Someone Who always Pays
      • A Simple Story
      • The King's Battle
      • Aftermath
      • Aging Population
      • Can we still be friends?
      • Carpe Diem
      • Coffee
      • Day to Day
      • Do Not Hold me Closer, Let me Go
      • Gift of Time
      • Love Everlasting
      • A Message to the Youth
      • Peach
      • Waiting for the Bell
      • Randy
      • The River & The Earth
      • The Show Goes On
      • Summer Love
      • Sundae
      • West Coast Wishing
    • Watch Every Second (2018) >
      • Editors' Note (2018)
      • White
      • eleven eleven
      • Growing Up
      • Claustrophobia
      • The Cage
      • The Soldier's Return
      • Spacing Out
      • Depression
      • Mona Lisa
      • Childhood Cancer
      • Puberty
      • Languish
      • A Magical Ending
      • Life
      • Barter
      • Descent into Space
      • Red Water
      • The Short Film
      • Starting Line
      • And I Am From?
      • Such a Foreign Concept
      • You Say
      • My Creator
      • The Most Common Illness
      • Reflection in Time
      • Ode to My Mirror
      • Time
      • See Me
      • Consequences
      • Where I'm From
      • Unstoppable
    • Her Voice Remains (2017) >
      • Editors' Note (2017)
      • Alone in the Halls
      • Ideal Love
      • Cliff at Dusk
      • I Will Never Forget You
      • Lost
      • OCD
      • Cannibal Animal
      • A Poem for Grandpa 2
      • Solvent
      • Risky
      • Shannen and Graces’ Long Road
      • Dear Bubbles
      • A Tree in the Air
      • Losing Myself
      • ABC's Poem
      • My Glorious Flight
      • Birth Giver
      • Flat Line
      • Eternal Beauty
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Hot Dish Magazine 2020 Staff

Editors
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Emma Bloom is a Junior history Major, English Minor at Buena Vista University. While she has roots in the Midwest, she calls

the East Coast home in Middletown, Maryland. Outside of academics she is the President of the BVU Alliance and Vice President

of the History Club and 
the It’s All Write Society. In her free time Emma likes to read, write her novels in progress, bake, and

​when the time allows: log roll. 
In her first year in Hot Dish, she served a co-editor alongside her partner in crime, as well as

helped find the photos that were matched to the pieces themselves.
 She is using her time as in the magazine to help improve her

own writing skills through refining her editing skills, all the while helping aspiring writers. 
 
 
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Lily Friedrichsen is a Sophomore Secondary English Education major at Buena Vista University. She enjoys reading, drawing,

​painting, working at the Alta daycare, mentoring students at Storm Lake Middle School, hanging out with friends, and staying

involved in activities and clubs on campus. Lily primarily worked on contacting authors, designing awards, 
creating national

poetry month Facebook posts, and helping authors edit their work. Lily brought a background of being the editor of her
 print 

newspaper and yearbook at her high school. 
Lily now understands how to better run an online publication and feels she can bring

​these skills to her future job as a high school English teacher. One piece of advice Lily gives high school students is to ask for

constructive criticism in everything you do. Don’t let it hurt your feelings! Use constructive criticism as a tool to become more

professional in anything you do.


 


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Dalton Machholz is a Junior History and English double major at Buena Vista University. While trying to impersonate as many

​people as possible in his poetry as well as life Dalton enjoys reading, video games, and a variety of other activities. Going into his

third year of working on Hot Dish Magazine, Dalton is constantly surprised with the imagination he sees in the work submitted to

the magazine. As Dalton continues to help salt Hot Dish Magazine, he has plans to study in Japan in the coming Spring of 2020.

Nonetheless Dalton hopes to continue to work with the literary community that he was continued to see build around Hot Dish

Magazine
. 
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Emily Brewer is a Senior Graphic Design major and Animation and Studio Art minor at Buena Vista University. From

​Cherokee, IA, Midwest born and raised, Emily prefers to be on the go--something the Midwest is pretty good at. If Emily isn’t

in the Design Lab crafting something great, she can be found reading, watching movies, or spending time outside with friends.

She serves as the President of the Art and Design Club and Assistant Visual Editor of the Tack, BVU’s student press. Working

for Hot Dish has been a great opportunity for Emily, being able to see the behind scenes of what goes into making a digital

magazine. While on Hot Dish Emily has been working on a map graphic of the submissions, a logo, and the magazine cover.

Along with the behind the scenes edits of the website. One tip that Emily gives to freshmen and high schoolers is to try

something new, often that’s were you’ll find the fun experience you will never forget.
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​Kayla Vetter is a senior Animation/Graphic Design major with a minor in Art History at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake,

​Iowa. An avid lover of shoes, watching classic films, or anything British, she survives solely on coffee and avocados. She enjoys

playing her violin in between reading and researching art and artists. She loves to read other forms of literature when she has the

proper time. When Kayla is baking up a storm with her artwork, it is usually in the form of printmaking or encaustics. Kayla is

excited, contributing her skills to Hot Dish by reading submissions, creating logos, and helping with revamping the website for

the magazine. She enjoyed reading a variety of talented high schoolers' works that are displayed within the magazine.   
 
 
 

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Sophia Mayer is a Sophomore Animation major and Graphic Design minor at Buena Vista University. Sophia enjoys spending

​her time reading, animating, drawing, sewing, or doing other crafting hobbies. This is her first year working for Hot Dish

Magazine
and her main job was creating the animation for the winning poetry piece.
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Advisor
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Dr. Gwen Hart is an Associate Professor of English at Buena Vista University and the faculty advisor for Hot Dish Magazine.

​She is the author of numerous 
poems, short stories, and essays published in literary magazines and anthologies such as Measure, 

Midwestern Gothic
, and Waters Deep: A Great Lakes Poetry Anthology. Her second poetry collection, The Empress of Kisses,

won the X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize from Texas Review Press. This year, she 
was impressed by the Hot Dish Magazine editors'

creativity and their commitment to responding to every writer who submitted work for consideration
. 
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