SPOT LIT is edited and published by Susan Hansell and Gerald Uyeno. Spot Lit Vol. 9 2016 is a double annual issue (133 pages) devoted in its entirety to a mixed-genre collection (HAWAIIAN HOMES) by Christian Hanz Lozada, and a mixed genre collection (SEIZING HOLD OF WHAT WILL NOT BE HELD) by Lisa Manning, and a ten-photograph excerpt from a series (FIVE SQUARE MILES) by Elizabeth Fenimore.