Lana Spendl

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Lana Spendl is the author of the chapbook of flash fiction We Cradled Each Other in the Air. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Hobart, Greensboro Review, Notre Dame Review, New Ohio Review, Zone 3, and other journals. She is a refugee from the Bosnian War in the 1990s, and her childhood was divided between Bosnia and Spain prior to her family’s move to the States.

  • A photograph of a squirrel peering through a window

    The Squirrel at the Monastery

    February 4, 2025 Lana Spendl
    Photo by Pixavril / Stock.adobe.com How do we look to her when she halts outside the window—paws spread, ears alert, tail stiff with hair in all directions—as we sit on the gompa floor,…
  • A faded color photograph of an old farm house

    Weekend House

    November 2023
    Lana Spendl
    Photo courtesy of author A refugee from the Bosnian War, Lana Spendl recalls family weekends in the country outside of Sarajevo: her friend with one cow, her grandmother’s garden, butterflies, and…
  • A photograph of a stuffed rabbit whose ear has fallen off

    Silencing

    May 2023
    Lana Spendl
    An ordinary day in Ávila darkens following a neighborly intervention. Setting a succulent into the window box outside, Maria spotted the boys from 2D in the courtyard below. Three brick buildings an…