Beth Gilstrap

Beth Gilstrap is the winner of the 2019 Red Hen Press Women’s Prose Prize for her second full-length collection Deadheading & Other Stories due out October 5, 2021 and available for preorder now. She is also the author of I Am Barbarella: Stories (2015) from Twelve Winters Press and No Man’s Wild Laura (2016) from Hyacinth Girl Press. Born and raised in the Charlotte area, she recently relocated to Louisville where she lives & writes in an ornery old shotgun house.
When You’re Strange: 5 Gen X Films That Shaped My Goth Goth Heart

When You’re Strange: 5 Gen X Films That Shaped My Goth Goth Heart

Gen X kids of single working moms like me had to figure a lot of things out themselves. These five films helped make sense of the world – outside and inside.