Thanks for visiting. I imagine you’re here about that thing I wrote.
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One session, July 12, 2025.
Tour dates for Out There in the Dark!
JUNE 17: Virtual Launch, YouTube, 6 PM Pacific
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JUNE 26: Womb House Books, Oakland, CA, 6:30 PM
with Anita Felicelli
FB event here!
JUNE 30: Annie Bloom’s Books, Portland, OR, 7 PM
With Marcelle Heath
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AUGUST EVENTS:
To buy books directly from me – signed, with stickers and/or chapbooks – email me! If you already know what you want, PayPal me here. Wire Mothers, $12; Junk Film, $17; Ceremonials, $15. Two for $25, all three for $30. Include your address!
OUT THERE IN THE DARK
Essays
Katharine Coldiron sees her life through a film projector. Out There in the Dark is a dynamic collection of essays that blends film criticism with memoir and fiction, as well as lists, visual diagrams, and Wikipedia collaging. It plumbs deeply some of our most knotted, abstract concepts: truth, kindness, the West, the female body, war, and—inevitably—Hollywood.
“Provocative, persuasive, and insightful.”
– David Shields
“A hybrid wonder, a must.”
– Henry Hoke
“A luminous object lesson in how we create our selves out of our experience of art.”
– Gabriel Blackwell
WIRE MOTHERS
Stories
A woman begins to eat books when food can’t satisfy. A reporter discovers that sympathy for the devil might be misplaced. A grandmother organizes her crimes into neat checklists. These five stories, written by one of indie lit’s most versatile authors, explore bad vibes, bad choices, and bad parenting.
“A gorgeous book.”
– Amber Sparks
“A powerhouse of characterization and insight.”
-Cathy Ulrich
Now available! Order from Whiskey Tit or Asterism.
My monograph on Plan 9 from Outer Space was released by Electric Dreamhouse Press in November 2021. Order direct from my publisher here, in ebook form (less expensive) here, or on Amazon (faster) here.
My novella, Ceremonials, an ekphrastic fiction in twelve parts, released from KERNPUNKT Press on February 11, 2020.
I have plenty of copies of this book, so please email me if you’d like to purchase one.
More info on these projects on the Books/Chapbooks page.
I write film criticism, book reviews, hybrid essays, and fiction. I edit other people’s words pretty well. I’m seeking homes for two finished projects in particular:
- Literary/historical novel based on Casablanca
- Conceptual novel, VICTORIAN SPAM
Feel free to poke around to look at my clips and offerings.
I’m glad you’re here.
