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Author photo by Ian MacAllen
About the Author
Ryan Rivas is the author of the image/textbook Nextdoor in Colonialtown (Autofocus, 2022). He is the Publisher of Burrow Press, and the Coordinator of MFA Publishing at Stetson University’s MFA of the Americas creative writing program. A Macondo Writers Workshop fellow, his work has appeared in Necessary Fiction, The Believer, The Rumpus, Literary Hub, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012, and elsewhere.
Reviews
“In this fantastic and fantastical novella, Rivas brilliantly creates a new DSM mental disorder category for the effects of white supremist double-speak on the psyches of those who cannot help but absorb its racist, earwormy, Sound of Music logic. Yes, you will hear strains of Edelweiss in Rivas’ thrilling, satiric, twist on the Lovecraft, where Cthulhu is not out there—but within.”
—Vidhu Aggarwal, author of Daughter Isotope
“It’s an incredible tightrope act to have something this bizarro that rings emotionally true. Put it straight in my veins.”
—Shane Hinton, author of Radio Dark
“A deeply felt and exquisitely strange novella. Rivas’ deft prose takes us on a journey to the heart of what it means to be a person in another world—lizard, human, or otherwise. Florida fabulism at its finest.”
—Caroline DeBruhl, book critic, Creative Loafing Tampa
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