Jasmine Sawers

Jasmine Sawers is a Kundiman fellow in fiction and a graduate of the MFA program at Indiana University. Originally from Buffalo, New York, she now lives and pets dogs outside St. Louis. Her work has appeared in such publications as Ploughshares, Fairy Tale Review, and [PANK].

Bloodberries

I swallowed it whole and a hedge burst from my breast, brambles grown thorny around my heart.