A Vietnamese Mardi Gras krewe.
The Black longshoremen of Mobile’s Banana Docks.
A meditation on rice and belonging.
This Food Issue isn’t just about what Southerners eat—it’s about who we are, where we’ve been, and where we’re going.
Sarah Mullens
About
Sarah Mullens is a Hammond-Schwartz Fellow at Colorado State University and associate editor at Colorado Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Missouri Review, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. In 2025, she won the Mayday Creative Nonfiction Prize from New American Press. A sixth-generation West Virginian, she splits her time between Putnam County and Colorado’s Front Range.