Ilana Bean

Ilana Bean is an essayist and MFA candidate at the University of Iowa, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Chicago Review of Books, DIAGRAM, Gawker, and elsewhere.

Safety Town

By June 20, 2022
These whimsical miniature street systems are at the heart of what my mom thinks is vital and good. They are utopias she is building — strange, if somewhat boring, microparadises where everyone obeys traffic laws.