Amanda Gaines
Amanda Gaines is an Appalachian writer and PhD candidate in creative nonfiction in Oklahoma State University’s creative writing program. Her poetry and nonfiction appear in Barrelhouse, Willow Springs, Rattle, Redivider, New Orleans Review, Southeast Review, the Southern Review, Juked, Pleiades, SmokeLong Quarterly, Ninth Letter, and Superstition Review.
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Stringed
I rediscover bluegrass seven beers deep into a Friday night. It’s snowed for three days in Oklahoma. The roads are swallowed by soft, rounded hills. They glisten under amber streetlamps outside my bedroom window. This kind of weather, a fluke. This kind of weather sets a new record. This kind of weather: quiet, open. Pale […]