North Dakota

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Written By Santa Fe Writers Project

By Coyote Shook

“North Dakota” by Coyote ShookA little over a year after “the incident,” I prepared to drive 15 hours from Austin to Atlanta alone.
The day before, I’d spontaneously agreed to drive with a friend to San Marcos and shovel shit out of a man’s sheep pen. He’s given the shit away for free, but strongly hinted that we stop by the animal feed store and bring them a bag of corn in exch…
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Coyote Shook (they/them) is an Appalachian expat, trans-crip cartoonist, and comic-historian living in Austin, Texas. They're a PhD student in American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, where they're working on their dissertation: an eco-crip history of Florida presented in comics-and-sound visual novel format. Their work has most recently appeared in or is forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly Review, South Dakota Review, Shenandoah Magazine, Camas Magazine, The San Antonio Review, Honey Literary Magazine, North Dakota Quarterly, The Puritan, The Florida Review, The Wisconsin Review, the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Influenza Project, the National Humanities Center, and the North Carolina Folklore Journal. Their graphic memoir, Coyote the Beautiful, was the 2020 winner of the Jeanne Leiby Chapbook Award (the first comic to win) with The Florida Review.

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