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Kathryn/Катя Bratt-Pfotenhauer

@kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social

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Writer • Syracuse MFA '24 • NYU PhD '29-'30. BAD ANIMAL, Riot in Your Throat Press, 2023 • SMALL GEOMETRIES, Ethel, 2023

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Kathryn/Катя Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · Apr 23

The first of my hurricane stories is live today in The Lindenwood Review! It's beyond exciting to find my fiction in their pages. Eternal thanks to the incomparable Beth Mead and the editorial staff for their kindness and care. Link in the comments to read!

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Kathryn/Катя Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · Aug 29

Just booked some Amtrak tickets because BAD ANIMAL is being taught in a college classroom this October. So excited to explore Providence and talk about poems. If you have any recommendations on what to do for three days there, let me know!

Kathryn/Катя Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · Aug 18

Compression wraps procured and thrown into the mix: 17,436 words, and this project is essentially novella-length!

Kathryn/Катя Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · Aug 18

The Nightmare Before Christmas is just Jack Skellington having a hypomanic episode send note

Kathryn/Катя Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · Aug 17

I don't think I've ever clocked 15,000 words on a novel built off pure and unadulterated spite, but I guess there's a first time for everything.

Kathryn/Катя Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · Aug 17

Thank you!!!

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · Aug 14

🌸COVER REVEAL🌸 for MORE FLOWERS & it’s a beauty! I’m grateful to so many: @triohousepress.org, @krisbigalk.bsky.social, @natashakane.bsky.social & to @fascicles.bsky.social, @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social, & @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social for their kind, generous words!

Pre-order link in comments!

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$ (Poetry Is Currency) @poetrycurrency.bsky.social · Aug 7

Congratulations to @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social, whose poem "IT ISN’T UNTIL I’M LECTURING MY STUDENTS ON FIRE SAFETY AND THEY’RE ALL LOOKING AT ME LIKE I’VE GROWN TWO HEADS THAT I REALIZE MAYBE I’M NOT TAKING YOUR DEATH AS WELL AS I THOUGHT" from $ was a finalist for Best of the Net!

2025 Finalists – Best of the Net

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Kathryn/Катя Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · Aug 7

So this happened. Many thanks to @rosswhite.com for the notification and to Best of the Net for acknowledging my poem pubbed by the lovely folks at @poetrycurrency.bsky.social as a finalist for this year.

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Kathryn/Катя Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · Aug 4

Hello all! It's been a bit. Exciting things may or may not be afoot---if you're intrigued, you can subscribe to the email list on my website to get the news (that may or not be coming) when I get the all clear to announce. :)

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Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer | poetry

Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer's website, showcasing exercepted poetry and fiction as well as books available for purchase.

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · May 19

Valzhyna Mort

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Kathryn/Катя Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · Apr 29

Little sick day short story acceptance---"WRAITH" coming your way soon-ish!

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Johnathan Appel @johnathanappel.bsky.social · Apr 25

In @mcsweeneys.net with @madelinegoetz.bsky.social talking about the Disney canon

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I Am the Servant in the Beast’s Castle Who Was Turned into a Chamberpot, and Nobody Ever Asks Me to Sing

Hey, everyone, I couldn’t help overhearing in this giant, nigh-deserted, echoey castle that you were doing an elaborate musical number where everyo...

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Kathryn/Катя Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · Apr 15

@riotinyourthroat.bsky.social is having a National Poetry Month sale, and you can find BAD ANIMAL and friends for only $10! Treat yourself to some fierce, fabulous, feminist poetry.

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Kathryn/Катя Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · Apr 23

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · Apr 21

From Kevin Young's Book of Hours: bookshop.org/a/862/978037...

#poem #books #writing

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Kathryn/Катя Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · Apr 15

Shop here: riotinyourthroat.com/book-catalog/

Catalog - Riot in Your Throat Press

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Kathryn/Катя Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · Apr 15

@riotinyourthroat.bsky.social is having a National Poetry Month sale, and you can find BAD ANIMAL and friends for only $10! Treat yourself to some fierce, fabulous, feminist poetry.

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Catapult Book Group @catapultbooks.bsky.social · Apr 4

Save the date! 🗓️ Join author Sarah Aziza & guest readers for the launch of her memoir THE HOLLOW HALF on April 22nd at Storm Books in Brooklyn, NY!

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Kathryn/Катя Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · Apr 3

Kathryn/Катя Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · Mar 27

She's ready for her closeup.

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Kathryn/Катя Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · Mar 19

Probably going to finish this novel rewrite in the next week and my main character is going to give me the electric chair and it will be SO WELL DESERVED

Kathryn/Катя Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · Mar 16

Little sad saucy poem in the newest beautiful issue of Cherry Tree. I wrote this one when I began fleshing out the concept for my novel, a Hades and Persephone retelling. So happy to be back in Cherry Tree's pages, and all my thanks for the editors.

Kathryn/Катя Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · Mar 16

60,000 words on the novel rewrite and morale is high! Stay tuned to find out just how quickly that tune changes for the next and last section.

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Jessica Cuello @jessicacuello.bsky.social · Mar 14

FERAL🐈‍⬛

Coming in 2027 from @jacklegpress.bsky.social ✨💖✨

I know how rare it is to return to the same press and I do not take it for granted.

I was so excited I signed the contract at work🖊💖

dedication to everyone who has felt shame for existing

2 epigraphs: Claire Millikin and Muriel Rukeyser (from "The Speed of Darkness")

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