It’s time to ring in the new year with the winter issue of The Southern Review! You can join us for an unusual Icelandic confirmation day in new fiction by Fríða Ísberg, or uncover a mystery in the snowy Appalachian wilderness forest with Virginia Lee Wood. Yxta Maya Murray delves into the lives of office workers exposed to nuclear experiments in the Simi Valley, while Joshua Bennett appears in our pages for the first time with four poems that examine family, fatherhood, and life outside the city as a Black man in America. Alongside new poems by Charles Simic, Maggie Smith, and Janice N. Harrington, this issue features the photography of Tina Freeman, whose work juxtaposes the subtle beauty of northern and southern landscapes to illustrate the impact of climate change near and far. We also proudly announce the winners of our annual James Olney and Oran Robert Perry Burke Awards.