Yes, some of these regions overlap; I’ve generally chosen the categorization I feel is the most appropriate for the book.

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Alaska

Appalachia

• Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo
• Sugar Run by Mesha Maren
• Jericho by Ann McMan

Bible Belt

• Real Bad Things by Kelly J. Ford (AR)

California

Bay Area

• Radiant Fugitives by Nawaaz Ahmed
• Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
• The IHOP Papers by Ali Liebegott
• Valencia by Michelle Tea

SoCal

• Milk Fed by Melissa Broder (LA)
• The Kill Club by Wendy Heard (LA)
• Broken People by Sam Lansky (LA)
• *All-Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky (LA)
• Just By Looking at Him by Ryan O’Connell (LA)
• Southland by Nina Revoyr (LA)
• The Guncle by Steven Rowley (Palm Springs)
• We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman (LA)

Deep South

• Furnace Creek by Joseph Allan Boone

Mid-Atlantic

• These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever (PA)

Midwest

• Under the Rainbow by Celia Laskey (KS)
• All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Matthews (WI)
• Blue Boy by Rakesh Satyal (OH)
• Real Life by Brandon Taylor

Florida

• Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
• With Teeth by Kristen Arnett
• The Kingdom of Sand by Andrew Holleran

Hawaii

New England

• The Companion by Kim Taylor Blakemore (NH)
• The World Cannot Give by Tara Isabella Burton (ME)
• Plain Bad Heroines by emily m. danforth (RI)
• Ben and Beatriz by Katalina Gamarra (MA)
• Belladonna by Anbara Salam (CT)
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (CT)

New York

NYC

• X by Davey Davis
• Rent Boy by Gary Indiana
• Clio Rising by Paula Martinac
• My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson
• Body Grammar by Jules Ohman
• Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
• Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers
• Last Call at the Nightingale by Katharine Schellman
• Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman
• Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood
• More of Everything  by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Upstate

Ozarks

• Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell

Mountain West

• Board to Death by CJ Connor (SLC)

Pacific Northwest

• Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen
• Stray City by Chelsey Johnson
• Vicious Creatures by Ashton Noone
• Body Grammar by Jules Ohman

Southeast

• Dead Letters from Paradise by Ann McMan (Winston-Salem, NC)
• Young God by Katherine Faw Morris (NC Hills)

Southwest

Texas

Border

• Perpetual West by Mesha Maren

Major Cities

• Memorial by Bryan Washington (Houston)

West

• The Golden Season by Madeline Kay Sneed