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Lanternfly August
2023
First Published
3.90
Average Rating
100
Number of Pages
In Lanternfly August, Robin Gow contends with the emotional geographies of home through the lens of an often-demonized species of insect.
Avg Rating
3.90
Number of Ratings
21
5 STARS
29%
4 STARS
48%
3 STARS
14%
2 STARS
5%
1 STARS
5%
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Author

Robin Gow
Robin Gow
Author · 8 books

Gow grew up in rural Pennsylvania and lives in Allentown Pennsylvania with their two pugs, Eddie and Gertie and their queer family. He works at Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center coordinating supportive services for the local LGBTQIA+ community. Awarded the Jerry Cain and Scott James Creative Writing Fellow, Gow earned their MFA in Creative Writing from Adelphi University where they also taught writing courses as an adjunct professor. Gow runs the trans & queer reading series Gender Reveal Party and co-edits the new magazine The Comments Section. Robin is the author of the chapbook Honeysuckle by Finishing Line Press and the collection Our Lady of Perpetual Degeneracy by Tolsun Books. Their first YA novel in verse, A Million Quiet Revolutions, is forthcoming March 2022 with FSG Books for Young readers and their first essay collection, Blue Blood, is forthcoming with Nasiona Publishing House. They is a managing editor The Nasiona and the assistant editor at large at Doubleback Books. They served for four years as the production editor of the Lantern literary magazine and are Social Media Coordinator for Oyster River Pages. They has also worked to help produce several zines and taught creative writing workshops in a variety of community spaces, including online forms. They are an out and proud autistic bisexual genderqueer man passionate about LGBTQIAA+ issues.

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