Trace Fossil

/trās ˈfäsəl/

  • A fossil of a footprint, trail, burrow, or other trace of an animal rather than the animal itself.

  • The art in wake of the artist.

2025

Anthology

Trace Fossils Review’s 2025 Anthology highlights some of our favorite pieces from the magazine’s second volume of publications.

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Trace Fossils Review’s 2025 Anthology highlights some of our favorite pieces from the magazine’s second volume of publications.

Purchase the anthology

Chris Jeanguenat

Abigail Ham

Madeleine Hollis

Rhett Milner

Matt Coonan

Grant Vecera

Fiona Jin

Anna Popnikolova

Guilherme Bergamini

Mary Amato

Fall

A Conversation With the Up & Coming

In July, Trace Fossils’ editor-in-chief, Jessie Leitzel, sat down with the 2025 Buzzcut interviewees, Ruby Varallo and Lillian Colette Hughes, to discuss their debut books…

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A Conversation
With the Up & Coming

In July, Trace Fossils’ editor-in-chief, Jessie Leitzel, sat down with the 2025 Buzzcut interviewees, Ruby Varallo and Lillian Colette Hughes, to discuss their debut books…

Read the interview

Current Issue

Featured

Real America

Fiona Jin | Poetry

The Glory

Abigail Ham | Nonfiction

Growing Pains

Matt Coonan | Poetry

Brainbugs

Madeleine Hollis | Fiction