his issue includes our last story by inimitable Houston writer John Nova Lomax, who died in May at age 53. I became acquainted with John’s work when I lived in Houston, and he was writing for and the . For the latter, he wrote a memorable series, “The, on the small coastal town of San Leon, was published in the June 2020 issue. I was thrilled when he accepted our proposal to become a writer-at-large in 2021. From the beginning, he had a keen sense of the stories our readers wanted to hear. He once told me in an email that was “the magazine I was truly born to write for.” That certainly came across in his stories, and our readers always connected with them.
