Kenneth Cupp
Kenneth Cupp’s work has appeared in the Advocate —the world's leading source of LGBTQIA+ news and information, covering the political and cultural conversations of the community. His poetry has appeared in Arlington Literary Journal (ArLiJo), which features writers, poets, and artists from around the world whose work encourages readers to contemplate important issues, His short stories have been published in art and literary magazines, such as Cool Beans Lit. He writes queer Southern stories about family, secrecy, survival, and what happens when private trouble becomes public.
The Work
I’m an independent author.
At my website,
readers can begin where they want,
follow the work as it grows,
and find it all in one place.
Find Poking Fun at My Pusillanimity,
a work of creative nonfiction
following my childhood from seven to thirteen,
growing up queer in the Deep South—
through shame, fear, family, and religion,
with humor and a growing sense of myself—
toward the first thing I ever wrote.
But if you're looking for trouble first,
I also invite you into Culvert Country,
my completed Southern crime serial.
A body turns up by the culvert
in a small Mississippi town.
Before Cal Mercer can get close,
the county is already deciding what it means.
The story is about the kind of truth
a town will bury
if burying it keeps
the right men comfortable.
That serial is on the website, free to read.
I'm also developing Eyes of Rawley,
an advocacy thriller
about a missing dog,
a compromised social world,
and the darker international shadows
around animal cruelty.
My background in IT and graduate legal studies
pulls me toward systems:
records, evidence, loopholes, pressure points.
All the quiet machinery
that lets harm keep going
while respectable people look away.
That's part of what interests me.
Not just what happened,
but how it’s allowed to happen.
Thank you to everyone who has followed,
subscribed, read, or shared.
Kenneth Cupp