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Megan McDowell

Megan McDowell is a translator from Richmond, Kentucky, who lives in Santiago, Chile. In 2020, she received an Arts and Letters Award in Literature. Her most recent translation is of Alejandro Zambra’s novel Bonsai.

Color illustration by Toma Vagner. A naked obese woman lies on her side. She is angled into the distance of the frame, with her feet looming in the foreground and her head almost hidden by her shoulder and breasts. Around her body are various small illustrative details, including potato chips and pills.

Fiction The Filth issue

Julie

By Mariana Enríquez

Julie had the dark dead eyes of a rat, untamable hair always standing on end, skin the color of wet sand.