A. Poythress is a non-binary lesbian currently working towards a PhD in creative writing/fiction at Oklahoma State University after receiving their MFA from Columbia College Chicago in creative writing/fiction. A lover of all things spooky, they primarily write horror and surreal fantasy stories about women and queer folk. When they’re not working on their first novel, they are reviewing books and interviewing authors for various literary publications.
AP has been published in print and online, most notably at The Rumpus, The Lit Pub, New Southern Fugitives (where they’re a regular book reviewer), Hair Trigger, Thresholds UK, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Asymmetry Fiction, the AWP Writer’s Notebook, and more.
“god at the side of the road” has the quality of folklore from centuries ago and worlds away that’s somehow been transplanted to contemporary middle America, a place that’s too new and too hopeful to understand the...