P. L. Watts escaped the Florida foster care system and worked her way through college and graduate school, earning an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a Lambda Literary Fellowship for Emerging LGBTQ Writers. Her essays have appeared in ANMLY, J Journal, The Florida Review, Nightmare Magazine, and elsewhere. She's currently writing a haunted memoir, GOOD FRIDAY WORLD, from a garret in Spokane.
Selected work
- Fiction
2
- Nonfiction
8
- Poetry
1
The Lizard Girl & The Alligator King
Ruminate & The Waking, 2022
Artist Exhibit: P. L. Watts, Negative Space
New Letters, 2022
Alternate Histories
ANMLY, 2023
Don’t Mistake Human Remains for Cocaine
The Florida Review & Aquifer: The Florida Review Online, 2022
Love Fugue
Contrary Magazine, 2021
Forensic Analysis of a Body, Still Warm
Nightmare, 2021
Times I Wasn't Raped
J Journal, 2021
Hand-Stitched
NonBinary Review, 2022
The Maestro
NonBinary Review, 2022
The Young Gator of Everglades Swamp
Turtle Island Quarterly, 2021
Spoiled
Intrinsick Mag, 2020