Megan Pillow is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop in fiction and holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Kentucky. She is co-editor of The Audacity, a newsletter by Roxane Gay. Her work has appeared recently, or is forthcoming in, publications such as The Believer, SmokeLong Quarterly, Passages North, Guernica, and Gay Magazine. Her fiction has been chosen for the Wigleaf Top 50 and honored as distinguished in The Best American Short Stories, and her nonfiction has been honored as notable in The Best American Essays. Find her on Twitter at @megpillow.
The Girl Detective reads about her death on Twitter. She is surprised. She doesn’t remember much from the night before—a bar with Bess and George. A man. A drink. A struggle. A stumble home in the dark—but she is The Girl Detective. She can’t be dead. She has hamburgers already pattied for dinner tonight. She […]