FORTHCOMING SEP 10 2024
PAUL ROUSSEAU
Paul Rousseau is a Disabled writer living in Minnesota. His short form work has appeared in Catapult, CRAFT, The Daily Drunk, Hippocampus, Jellyfish Review, JMWW, Necessary Fiction, New Delta Review, Okay Donkey, Pigeonholes, Pithead Chapel, Rejection Letters, Waxwing, Wigleaf, and X-R-A-Y, among others, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best Small Fictions 2024, and longlisted on the Wigleaf Top 50.
Paul’s essay “Public Safety” was hand-selected by Roxane Gay to feature in her newsletter, The Audacity early in 2021. This piece can be found, in somewhat altered form, in Paul’s forthcoming memoir, FRIENDLY FIRE: A FRACTURED MEMOIR, his account of being accidentally shot in the head by his best friend and roommate one month before college graduation, and its aftermath in navigating the trauma of brain injury, the dehumanization of personal injury cases, and the pieces of a devastated friendship.
