Delaney Nolan is the author of the novel, Happy Bad (Astra Books).

A heat wave triggers a massive blackout and Twin Bridge, a drug treatment facility in near-future East Texas, must evacuate.

Panicked, enraged teenage girls are unleashed in this “madcap road trip chronicle; a moving display of human connection in the face of violence and climate destruction.”

“…brutal, joyful, surprising, and gorgeous. It’s a stunner.”- Julia Phillips, author of Bear and Disappearing Earth

“Smuggles tenderness amid the horrors.” – Publishers Weekly

Delaney Nolan received her MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Rona Jaffe fellow.

She has since received a Pushcart Prize, two Academy of American Poets Prizes, and a Fulbright Fellowship in fiction.

She is based in New Orleans.

Twurt (“The World’s most Unique Representation of Truth”) Chamberlain is a genre-bending singer-songwriter from Lexington, Mississippi.

Chamberlain is a soulful vocalist and guitarist whose music is a fusion of blues, rock and hip-hop focusing on uplifting, positive lyrics.

His latest album is Country Punk Black.

A former street busker, he is now co-owner of a soul food restaurant in Lexington, LaRue’s Room.

Inspired by the traditional juke joint spirit, Kody Shade Harrell’s music merges raw, rural blues with the improv energy of psychedelia and the infectious pulse of modern and classic beats.

His latest single is “Goin’ Down South.”

Harrell is from Sardis, MS. A former guitarist with blues rockers, Proud Hound, he has also logged miles touring the world with Cedric Burnside.

Photo: Debra Pink