May 2022. Shelter.

Editorial Team: Molly Fessler, Ellie Lorenzana, Limi Sharif, Marvin Urias, Bhavna Guduguntla

Visual Design: Limi Sharif

Featured Pieces: Voices from the Street: Storytelling Among People Experiencing Homelessness

Guest Editors: Drs. Ruth Bishop & Sarah Jabour

From the Editors

Dear friend–

So begins Emily Dickenson’s letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, her editor and confidant. She continues “I felt it shelter to speak to you,” and in so writing, expands our notion of what shelter may be. 

As we have a habit of doing, perhaps to a degree of overwrought, here at Auxocardia, we sought a definition: