Photo credit: Babe Land Photography

Lindsey Pharr lives and writes outside of Asheville, NC. She received her MFA in Creative Nonfiction at the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University in Louisville, KY. Her work has won the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards, received Honorable Mention in the AWP Intro Journals Project, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Publications

Unfinished Foxes” in Southeast Review (Issue 42.2) 2023 Ned Stuckey-French Nonfiction Contest Finalist and 2024 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards Winner

Brave Person Drag: Identity, Consciousness, and the Power of the Cyclical in Gamebook-Formatted Memoir” in Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies (Spring 2024 issue)

On Being Still and Knowing” in The Appalachian Review (Summer 2023 issue) Nominated for the Pushcart Prize

“Fistful of Blue” in SmokeLong Quarterly (September, 2023) CNF Winner of A SmokeLong Summer Contest

We Call Up Danger Only to Send It Away” in River Teeth’s Beautiful Things (April, 2023)

“The Ursulines" in Hex (January, 2023)

“The Nine O'Glock Shuffle in X-R-A-Y (November, 2022)

“Circe at the Strip Club” in Bending Genres (August 2022)

“Nine of Hearts” in Longleaf Review (November 2021)

“Crazy Josh and the Perfume of Immortality” in Ghost Parachute (September, 2021)

“When I Say We Were at the Bar on Election Night” in Sledgehammer (August, 2021)

“Nobody Asks Ammut How Her Day Went” in Sledgehammer (July, 2021)

“Held in the Hands of Dangerous Men” in The Great Smokies Review (Fall, 2020)

Photo credit: Melanie Weldon-Soiset

Forthcoming

River Teeth (Fall 2024)