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.

Spring

Keira Deer

Clinton Khile-Brägger

Virgil Suárez

Audrey Dubois

Laura Ann Reed

Ferris Jones

Marie Anne Arreola

Rachel Whalen

Erik Harper Klass

Issue

2025

Anthology

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

Purchase the anthology

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

Purchase the anthology

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

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

Through the River

Lila Hayes | Fiction

I Envy You, Marsh

Sophia Mandrier | Poetry

Friend of the Tide

Chloe Johnson | Fiction

Climate Change

Hunter Fulp | Poetry