For all of April (a.k.a. National Poetry Month), we prompted the ever-growing High Desert Journal family to send us their best “High Desert Haiku,” and boy did they deliver! Our amazing Social Media Coordinator/Nonfiction Reader, Evonne Ellis, collected everyone’s contributions throughout the month, and we’re excited to share them with you now—

High Desert Journal and Nonfiction Editor CMarie Fuhrman are pleased to introduce Guest Nonfiction Editor, Leeanna Torres.

HDJ contributor Kathryn Wilder’s essay “Lunar Red” made the list of notable essays in Best American Essays 2021.

A poem to acknowledge that the land itself - along with the people whose language, culture, and religion were born of it - is rarely acknowledged.

High Desert Journal is thrilled to announce new additions to our Board of Directors! Please welcome Robert Stubblefield, Stacy Boe Miller, and founding Editor of HDJ, Elizabeth Quinn

Watch HDJ contributors Corrie Williamson, Karen Auvinen, and Leanna Torres give a special reading from Issue No. 32.

HDJ Poetry Editor Sheryl Noethe has kindly donated $1,000 in the name of her mother, Barbara Noethe.