Elizabeth Gonzalez James' stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The LA Review of Books, The Rumpus, The Idaho Review, and elsewhere, and have received multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations. Her debut novel, MONA AT SEA, is forthcoming in 2021 from The Santa Fe Writers Project. Originally from South Texas, she now lives with her family in Oakland, California.
Chimera can denote a monster, a fantasy, or an organism containing at least two distinct sets of DNA. It is this hybridity, multiple sets of DNA woven together to form something new, that sets Chimerica apart. Read...