ABOUT
The Normal School is an online journal featuring creative nonfiction, poetry, fiction, author interviews, and multimedia texts. The bi-annual print magazine finished in spring 2019, ending its 11-year run.
We are nestled happily into California State University, Fresno like a comfy spore in a benign and mighty lung. We dig quirky, boundary-challenging, energetic prose and poetry with innovations in content, form, and focus, which isn’t actually as high-falutin’ as it sounds. We’re just sort of the lit mag equivalent of the kid who always has bottle caps, cat’s eye marbles, dead animal skulls, little blue men and other treasures in their pockets.
The Normal School is currently 100% staffed by graduate students of Fresno State’s Master of Fine Arts program, one of the most diverse creative writing programs in the country; and while we’re immensely proud of the magazine, we know there’s always more work to do. We remain steadfast in our commitment to publish work that challenges the norm while highlighting work from Black and Indigenous writers, writers of color, writers with disabilities, writers from LGBTQIA+ communities, and voices that have been historically under-represented and minoritized in the publishing world.
Thank you for reading and supporting our efforts.
Still Normal,
— The Editors
The Normals
Editor in Chief
Steven Church
Founding Editors
Sophie Beck, Steven Church, and Matt Roberts
Managing Editor
Angelina Leaños
Senior Genre Editors
James T. Morrison (Creative Nonfiction), Phoua Lee (Fiction), Angelina Leaños (Poetry)
Multimedia Editor
James T. Morrison
Associate Editors: 3rd Year
Soreath Hok, Sharon McClain, Taylor Seals
Assistant Editors: 1st and 2nd Year
Alexander Ayers, Antonia Cardinale, Kaylynn Holt, Alison Mandaville, Emerald Medrano, Kayla Quevedo, Isabella Ramos, Teresa Randolph, Leslie Kay Quintana
Editorial Assistants
Angelina Leaños, Taylor Seals
Columnists
Joe Bonomo (Music)
Social Media Coordinator
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Normal Support
Colossal thanks to California State University, Fresno, especially:
Dr. Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval, President
Dr. Xuanning Fu, Provost
Instructionally Related Activities Fund
College of Arts and Humanities:
Dr. Honora Chapman, Dean
Dr. Matthew Darling, Associate Dean
Brenna Barks, Administrative Analyst
Dean's Council Annual Fund
Department of English:
Dr. John Beynon, Chair
Lisa Galvez, Administrative Support Coordinator
Jefferson Beavers, Communication Specialist