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Vonetta Young

 Vonetta Young is a writer based in Washington, DC. Her essays have appeared in Indiana Review, Barrelhouse, Lunch Ticket, Catapult, and the anthology America’s Future: poetry & prose in response to tomorrow, among others. Her fiction has appeared in Cosmonauts Avenue, Gargoyle, and the anthology Furious Gravity. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. Vonetta serves as Editor in Chief of The Offing; she was previously Senior Fiction Editor at The Rumpus and Assistant Flash Editor at Hippocampus. To read her work, visit www.vonettayoung.com. Follow her on Instagram at @VonettaWrites.   
  • Vonetta Young

    Big Beautiful Home

    From the beginning, Our House drew me in, with its bright red door contrasting against the deep blue exterior—my favorite colors. Inside, as I wandered from room to room, I asked myself, Is this Our House?