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Katharine Coldiron is the author of Ceremonials, Junk Film, and Wire Mothers. Her work has appeared in Ms., the Washington Post, Conjunctions, NPR, and many other places. Find her at kcoldiron.com.
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Katharine Coldiron is the author of Ceremonials (Kernpunkt, 2020), Plan 9 from Outer Space (PS Publishing, 2021), Junk Film (Castle Bridge Media, 2023), Wire Mothers (Whiskey Tit, 2024), and Out There in the Dark (Autofocus, 2025). Her work as a book critic has appeared in the Washington Post, the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, and many other places; as an essayist, in Conjunctions, Ms., Booth, and elsewhere. She and her books have been profiled in three countries on radio and television, including a lengthy guest spot on NPR with Paul Scheer and John Horn.
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I write. My work has been described by rejecting editors as “tremendously creative,” “impressive,” and “hypnotic.” Also “slow.” The best way to get to know me is to read my blog, which from 2011 until 2025 was at Blogger, and is currently at Patreon. You can also subscribe to my newsletter, the Fictator’s Digest. It isn’t a Substack type of newsletter with real writing in it, but a digest of updates on my writing and somewhat on my life. I send it out when I have news, which is monthly during high book release times and seasonally otherwise.
I was raised all along the American East Coast, because we moved a lot. I learned how to read before I was three. Once a Facebook quiz asked what my favorite game was as a child, and I answered “It was called ‘go in my room and read.'” I was an only child.
I went to private schools, mostly, but I’m not very comfortable saying so. As a sixth-grader at a new school, I embarrassed myself badly by asking the librarian where the eighth-grade books were. At least three classmates told me later that they heard me ask that and thought I was a bitch straightaway. I was simply used to how the books were filed at my old school.
My husband and I went to high school together. We were not sweethearts. We got together romantically after we both went to college, when we were both in the process of rebounding to our parents’ houses. We’ve been married since 2011, living together since 2006, and have known each other since 1995. He is a video game designer; thus, people at parties are far more interested in his job than mine.
I am proud of having attended a women’s college for my bachelor’s degree, but I feel far more connected to CSUN, where I got my master’s. The investment that most instructors there have in their students astonishes me.
My work as a writer has evolved unrecognizably over the years. I’ve been writing stories off and on since I was seven. In my adult life, I’ve written five novel-length works, a handful of novellas, an essay collection, and probably three books’ worth of uncollected short stories and essays. (Plus at least 100K words of book reviews.) Much of this work has been terrible. Some of it is actively getting shopped.
Please get in touch with me if you’d like to chat, kcoldiron at gmail. I love talking about my work. <3