I’m very pleased that a some of my work from 2019 and 2020 has been published in the Fall 2021 issue of Virginia Quarterly Review, accompanying Emily Maloney’s essay “Something for the Pain: Where is the opioid crisis headed?” I think it’s a perfect editorial pairing: one of the tracks of my work has been to highlight the strangeness and complexity of the act of portrayal, while the article examines dependency’s contemporary nuances and medical realpolitik; there’s something in the tone of the images and the article that overlaps in the form of a feeling, and which makes sense. I hope VQR’s readers will enjoy.