Winner, 2025 Firecracker Awards Winner in Creative Nonfiction, given by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

Raised in a rural Oregon town plagued by poverty, the artist and writer Jaydra Johnson excelled in school and chased upward mobility, desperate to escape the adversity that she saw as her inheritance - and the certainty that she grew up as trash. Johnson's powerful memoir, Low - selected by acclaimed writer Maggie Nelson as the winner of Fonograf Editions' inaugural essay contest—tells the redemptive story of an artist who came to embrace...