Jordan Rothacker, Author of Gristle Book

Gristle is alchemical theatre, a collection of weird tales, twelve fingers on the steering wheel, with D.H.Lawrence and Sylvia Plath asleep across the back seat, Chekov shivering on the hard shoulder…Gristle is a post-beat riddle, a comedy, a nightmare…Gristle is Salinger descending from his eyrie with a bottle of Thunderbird. Jordan A. Rothacker hasstolen a dream car…The road doubles back upon itself, but the riders are still lost. Sincerity and foolishness glow from the map. Follow, follow, the Moon is over the blacktop and the canny ghosts and story serpents are coming out…

Jordan A. Rothacker lives in Athens, GA, where he earned a Doctorate in Comparative Literature and a Masters in Religion from the University of Georgia. He is the author of Gristle (Stalking Horse Press), My Shadow Book by Maawaam (Spaceboy Books), and The Pit, and No Other Stories (Black Hill Press). His journalism has appeared many venues, including Vegetarian Times and International Wristwatch, while his fiction, poetry, and essays can be found in Red River Review, Dark Matter, Dead Flowers, Stone Highway Review, Mayday Magazine, As It Ought to Be, and The Exquisite Corpse. His fiction can also be found in The Cost of Paper: II (2015) and The Cost of Paper: III (2016), anthologies from Black Hill Press edited by William M. Brandon III. www.jordanrothacker.com