The Queer South by Douglas Ray

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The Queer South by Douglas Ray

In The Queer South, Douglas Ray has assembled over 60 queer-identified voices exploring their experiences of the American South in nonfiction and poetry. From hilarious to heartbreaking, anxious to angry, religious to reluctant, contemplative to celebratory, this anthology expands our ideas of what it means to be queer and what it means to represent the land south of the Mason-Dixon. Included are Dorothy Allison, Shane Allison, John Andrews, Derrick Austin, Jeffery Berg, Richard Blanco, Perry Brass, Dustin Brookshire, Jericho Brown, Joey Connelly, William Cordeiro, C. Cleo Creech, James Croteau, J.K. Daniels, Nick Dephtereos, David Eye, Jason K. Friedman, D. Gilson, Ellen Goldstein, Mirian Bird Greenberg, Elizabeth Gross, Johnathan Harper, Scott Hightower, Matthew Hittinger, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Rex Leonowicz, Sassafras Lowrey, Tyler Lynn, Bo McGuire, Rangi McNeil, Kelly McQuain, M. Mack, Ed Madden, Jeff Mann, Randall Mann, Mary Meriam, Stephen S. Mills, Cameron Mitchell, Foster Noone, Joseph Osmundson, Eddie Outlaw, Seth Pennington, Evan J. Peterson, Kenneth Pobo, Brad Richard, Hannah Riddle, Laurence Ross, Liana Roux, Kevin Sessums, Del Shores, Erin Elizabeth Smith, Will Stockton, Dan Stone, Christine Stroud, Billie Tadros, TC Tolbert, Dan Vera, Annie Virginia, Valerie Wetlaufer, C.T. Whitley, Scott Wiggerman, Cristan Williams, and L. Lamar Wilson.
Ray, Douglas: - A native Mississippian, Douglas Ray is author of He Will Laugh (Lethe Press, 2012), which traces the intense love between two young men from the excitement of their first meeting to the aftermath of a tragic suicide. A former Lambda Literary Foundation Poetry Fellow, he received his BA summa cum laude in classics and English and MFA in creative writing from The University of Mississippi, where he edited The Yalobusha Review. He teaches literature and writing at Indian Springs School, an independent boarding and day school in Birmingham, Alabama.
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ISBN 13 9781937420802
ISBN 10 1937420809
Title The Queer South
Author Douglas Ray
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC
Year published 2014-09-16
Number of pages 304
Prizes Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Anthology) 2015
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.