Avalon A. Manly

Avalon A. Manly has a master’s from Western New Mexico University and has been teaching literature at the secondary level since 2011. Her thesis, “Insist on Your Cup of Stars: Gothic Literature as a Guide to Historical Anxieties About Gender and Sexuality,” was accepted to present at 2020’s Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference, and her fiction has appeared in numerous collections, including Honey Island Swamp Child (2015) and The Red Wheelbarrow Review (2020).