Kathryn/Катя Bratt-Pfotenhauer
@kb_pfotenhauer
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Writer. PhDing in Comparative Literature at @nyuniversity. they/she 🍊 BAD ANIMAL (@RiotThroat July 2023) - SMALL GEOMETRIES (@the_ethelzine, May 2023)
New York City
Joined March 2013
I wrote a book, and tonight it won the 2024 CNY Book Award in Poetry. I'm bowled over. Completely dumbstruck to be in company with the fabulous fellow finalists Jessica Cuello and Jamaica Baldwin among so many incredible other poets.
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Chose to rewrite the novel fully instead of copying and pasting things from the previous draft and I do regret to tell you it's made it so much better, oh my god, and this is only having finished section one.
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SHE'S HERE!!! @MariaZoccola has written a true gem, and you should pick it up with haste. Support Maria's local bookstore---novel. in Memphis---and get your copy today!
🎉🎉🎉 She's here! I am over the moon to bring Helen of Troy, 1993 into the world today. What a gift this publishing process has been. Unending gratitude to agent @kelseydaywrites, editor @emilycpolson, and the entire @ScribnerBooks @simonschuster team. Happy birthday, Helen. 🧡
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My short story, A MIRROR FOR THE DEAD, is up today in @MastersReview! So grateful to Cole Meyer and the editorial team for their support.
"His face was turned away from me, I’d only seen it in profile, but there was no mistaking it. He looked like my brother Emil, which meant he looked like my father." —@kb_pfotenhauer, “A Mirror for the Dead” Read here:
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Hey hey! For the foreseeable future, I'll be posting on Bluesky. You can find me there at kcbrattpfotenhauer! See you on the other side.
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Every time a beautiful woman tells me I'm cherished, I feel like the Grinch when his heart grew three sizes and burst out of his chest box.
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Linguistic dominance implies the existence of linguistic submission. Happy Halloween! 👿
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RT @aliner: Once I said “Yes” for an entire year. And I kept walking toward him. - Brian Teare, excerpts from "On the Pleasure of the Tex…
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On days when living seems a little like shouting into a void, I have to tell myself that moving slow is still moving, and it's better than not moving at all. And that helps.
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