Editor's note for Soft Star Issue Five: Frontier. On inspiration and creativity among the otherworldly landscapes of Utah.

Life in America's (Sci-Fi) Movie Set

Editor's note for Soft Star Issue Four: Arcana

The Limits of Control: On Magic, Mystery, and Human Ambition

Editor's note for Soft Star Issue Two: Aurora.

Tenuous Veils: Taking Inspiration from the Aurora

Letter from the editor and explanation of the ethos of Soft Star Magazine

The Case for Optimistic Futurism

A poem about cultures in contact and the realities of privilege

Udaipur

"Kids like us from central Wyoming went to Boulder for one of three reasons: college, weed, and abortions. It was an infamous eight-hour drive of shame."

Miranda Adkins

Selected work