{"product_id":"there-is-news-along-the-ohio-river-9798992611656","title":"There Is News Along the Ohio River","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere Is News Along the Ohio River\u003c\/i\u003e is a paean to careful attention and riverwalks. Beth Gilstrap locates the trauma and grief and gratitude of everyday life in the landscape and history of the Ohio River where it separates Louisville, Kentucky, and Jeffersonville, Indiana. This book offers readers the experience of taking a daily walk along the same path--on the surface, each day is much the same; yet if one looks closely enough, each day also holds new beauty, unexpected strangeness. Written in vignettes that exist somewhere between micro-essays and prose poems, Gilstrap explores personal loss and how it intersects with the world one inhabits: the flora and fauna and human-wrought damage at the space between the urban and the natural, the personal and the profound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGilstrap, Beth:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eBeth 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 \u003ci\u003eDeadheading \u0026amp; Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), winner of the Red Hen Press Women's Prose Prize, and \u003ci\u003eI Am Barbarella: Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (2015) from Twelve Winters Press. She is also the author of the chapbook \u003ci\u003eNo Man's Wild Laura\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) from Hyacinth Girl Press \u0026amp; EIC\/publisher of the goth\/punk zine \u003ci\u003eBlack Lily\u003c\/i\u003e. Her essays, stories, and hybrids have appeared in \u003ci\u003ePoets \u0026amp; Writers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWigleaf\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCraft\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBending Genres\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Cincinnati Review\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"River River Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52160334102802,"sku":"9798992611656","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_87cbf529-7b34-4a0d-8413-533fda802dea.jpg?v=1775053860","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/there-is-news-along-the-ohio-river-9798992611656","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}