Willie is the author of Gay Poems for Red States, a collection of narrative poems published by the University Press of Kentucky in 2023.[6][7]Gay Poems for Red States was named a Book Riot 2023 Best Book of the Year,[8] an IndieBound and American Booksellers Association's must-have book for poetry lovers,[9] a Top Ten Best Book of Appalachia by Read Appalachia,[10] a top ten 2022 Southern Book in Garden and Gun,[11] and selected as a 2023 Over the Rainbow Book List book by the American Library Association.[12] In 2024, it was named a Stonewall Book Award Honor Book[13] and won a Whippoorwill Honor Award for Rural Young Adult Literature.[14] Gay Poems for Red States has since been named a 2025 Judy Gaines Young Book Award nominee [15] and the winner of a Rainbow Advocacy 2025 Award.[16]
Carver is also the author of Tore All to Pieces, a fragmented novel about the lives of a fictional Appalachian community, published by the University Press of Kentucky in 2026.[32] His creative writing has been published by Salvation South,[33]Untelling Magazine,[34]North Meridian Review,[35] and in a variety of anthologies and books, including Trouble in Censorville (Disobedience Press),[36]Had I a Dove (Red Hawk Publications),[37]Discarded (Backwoods Literary Press),[38] and Rural Education and Queer Identities (Routledge).[39]
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