Tameka Cage Conley

Biography

Tameka Cage Conley is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Callaloo, and the African American Review. She teaches advanced fiction writing at the University of Iowa, where she holds the Provost Postgraduate Visiting Writer Fellowship in Fiction.  

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FICTION / Winter 2018

Fields and Fields Aflame

By Tameka Cage Conley ,  Illustration by Arianna Vairo

Who would Oval become now that her mother was dead, she wondered. She considered the sun, a ball of light and strength that no one thought of except when the world was too hot to bear or when the world was gray, and there was rain, what...

Illustration by Arianna Vairo