Chris Belcher, author of the memoir Pretty Baby (2022), finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Memoir, and Carter Sickels, author of the novel The Prettiest Star (2020), winner of the 2021 Southern Book Prize and the Weatherford Award. In a wide-ranging discussion, they discuss their own experiences of movement between rural and urban environments, the ways in which their writing both reinforces and questions queer metronormative narratives of flight, the representations of queer rural identities in different media, and the relationships they are trying to cultivate with different urban and rural readerships through their work.