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Brittany Means

Brittany Means was born dead and then lived for a while in a car and then later in a huge black barn out in the cornfields of rural Indiana. A graduate of the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program, her debut memoir, Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways, earned a Kirkus starred review, an Indiana Author’s Award, and was a finalist for the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards. Currently, Means lives in Albuquerque, where she keeps chickens, does mutual aid, and watches many many horror movies.