This Spring, the OA will focus on food.
Through fresh reporting, in-depth profiles, and daring personal essays, this issue will explore what we eat: people, industries, and tastes that both build and challenge our ideas of Southern food.
Emily Jalloul
About
Emily Jalloul is a Lebanese American poet and author from South Florida. She is the associate editor for What Things Cost: an anthology for the people (University Press of Kentucky, 2023), selected as one of the best anthologies of the year by Poets & Writers and Southern Review of Books. “Where it Starts” is excerpted from her current manuscript, a poetic memoir about intergenerational traumas among the women in her family.