Rose McCoy (she/her) is a poet and writer from West Virginia. She often writes on themes of love, loss, and other things that hit her in the heart. She has been published by The Passionfruit Review, Moonbow Magazine, Bottlecap Press, Ghost Girls Zine, Bullshit Lit, and more. She can be found online @24hrmccoy and in person on rare occasions. WHEN THE WORLD DIDN'T END is her second chapbook.


"To read WHEN THE WORLD DIDN'T END is to spy a cactus wren trying to take forgotten holiday tinsel through a barbed wire in order to build the perfect nest for their mate-terrifying, but so mesmerizing you can't turn away.


Rose McCoy weaves words through these pages like silk prophecies from another nebula-the teeth of paper dragons, laughter at an old joke, God as a teenage girl trying her best to fix the mess we made of all that she gave.


WHEN THE WORLD DIDN'T END is the petals falling on your head when you walk outside after a hard rain. It's the sweet song your grandma never got to teach you but always wanted to. It's the bit of endorphin bliss after an anxiety attack.


WHEN THE WORLD DIDN'T END is a must read."


- Clem Flowers, author of New Flowers For The Blue Dogs & LUSH EYED//BLEED MOONSHINE


¿¿"Contemporary and raw yet still tender, WHEN THE WORLD DIDN'T END is a love letter to surrender. McCoy gives herself over to her faith, her guilt, her body, and her unflinching desire to exist as her truest self. Not only does the world go on, but so does her spirit, her fire, her will."


-Emily Perkovich, EIC of Querencia Press & author of baby, sweetheart, honey