Beth Gilstrap

Beth Gilstrap (she/her) is a writer from Charlotte, North Carolina who likes to play with genre lines. She is the author of two story collections including Deadheading & Other Stories (2021), winner of the Red Hen Press Women's Prose Prize,and I Am Barbarella: Stories (2015) from Twelve Winters Press. She is also the author of the chapbook No Man's Wild Laura (2016) from Hyacinth Girl Press & EIC/publisher of the goth/punk zine Black Lily. Her essays, stories, and hybrids have appeared in Poets & Writers, Wigleaf, Craft, Bending Genres, and The Cincinnati Review, among others. She and her house full of critters currently call the Charleston-metro area home. As a neurodivergent human who lives with c-PTSD, she is quite vocal about ending the stigma surrounding mental illness.