Bending

For whom do we become malleable? When do we break? When do we bend? These are some of the questions being asked and explored by 12 writers who were invited to respond react to be in conversation with drawings from Laylah Ali's Studies series.They wrote back in micro-fictions creative nonfiction poems and pieces that ignore boundaries of genre.Bending features written work by Victoria Chang Caro De Robertis Julian Delgado Lopera Jaquira Di?az Patricia Engel Courtney Faye Taylor Nimmi Gowrinathan Diana Khoi Nguyen Chinelo Okparanta Shana L. Redmond Lilliam Rivera and Alejandro Varela.