The fourth volume of FROM SAC. This issue addresses the theme of being an Outsider. At some point, we have all felt outside of something: at school, at work, at home, in our community, in a relationship; or perhaps more of a physical outsider, whether outside our house, our town, our state, our country. Wherever we are, and whatever we are doing, we are simultaneously an insider and an outsider. Often we define ourselves by what or where we are in, but equally we are constructed by those whats and those wheres that we are not in. Whatever and however it may be, we want to know what makes you, or others, feel like an OUTSIDER. This is the first issue that FROM SAC has sought submissions outside of Northern California. We heard from everyone all over the world, and volume four is full of amazing writing and authors, as well and photographs.

2017 marked the 20th anniversary of the founding of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles. We commemorated this occasion with a special edition of our journal. Lunch Ticket Special: Celebrating 20 Years of Antioch¿s MFA in Creative Writing features new and previously published works by Antioch MFA alumni.