Reimagining the Mothman?West Virginia's famed cryptid and a harbinger of tragedy?reluctantly coming of age, Robert Wood Lynn deftly explores love and grief, the utility of warnings, the devastation of the opioid epidemic, and the experience of youth in the rural Virginias.

Robert Wood Lynn is a writer from Virginia. His work has appeared in Antioch Review, The Cincinnati Review, New Ohio Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and other journals. Rae Armantrout is the award-winning author of eighteen books of poetry, most recently Finalists, Conjure, and Wobble.