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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

As I little girl, I told my momma that Dolly had the voice of angel. I have loved Dolly Parton all my life, from my earliest memories. Her music, her movies, and then her kindness, her love of literacy, and her secretly being a producer for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I will always love you, Dolly.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I’ve always been like this.

Me as little girl, blonde hair, in shorts and a t-shirt sitting on the grass. A cat stretches out in front of me and I have two kittens, one in each hand.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Markee living a life of leisure.

A snowshoe cat lounging on the back of a couch cushion, arm extended across the window ledge, gazing out the window where there is sunshine and green grass.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Such beautiful art in this issue of Reed Magazine. It also features my essay, “Hysteria in 49 Segments,” about Lanie (my sister), her health crisis, Charcot and hysterics, and her death due to a wreck after recovering from the health crisis.

Photo of first page of “Hysteria in 49 Segments”

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Grateful to have work in this gorgeous issue. “Hysteria in 49 Segments” is an enumerated essay about my sister’s health crisis just to lose her from a hit and run wreck plus Charcot and hysteria (as a lens of trauma and loss in the body).

Screen shot of my essay, “Hysteria in 49 Segments.”

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Brian DePalma’s Carrie is showing at the small historic theater in town. I’m so ready to watch Carrie burn it all down.

Broadway Theatre marquee. May 2 VHS Night-Carrie 8 pm

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Into the woods today. My happy place.

A flowing river with bare trees and bare bushes on its banks. A blue sky above.

A path covered with leaves and sticks. Tall skinny trees stretching toward the blue sky.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I think, but am not certain, Michigan (central michigan) winter has ended. Sunny and 60 today.

Rushing river water with white foam. Bare trees line the banks. A blue sky with thin wisps of clouds.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

For a small town, we ended up with a protest that was multiple blocks longs.

I’m holding an abolish fascism sign. Brown hair, red lipstick, glasses, in a leopard print coat and black clothing.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

After teaching, it was cooler but still pleasant enough for a long trek around the woods.

Bare trees stretching toward the sky (a little blue and orange behind it). Limbs leaned against the trunk as if readying for a bonfire. Brown dry leaves on the groused.

Chippewa River. Slow moving water. Sky and trees reflected. Trees with bare branches. Cloudy sky with blue and white poking through.

A deer in green and green and brown grass. Outside of the woods.

A tree trunk with eyeballs painted on it.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Patricia Killelea read here last night at CMU. Her latest collection won our Summit Series Prize(Cmich Press)—selected by Diane Seuss. A lovely reading. Gorgeously ominous eco-poetry.

Cover of Solace by Patricia Killelea. A deer standing next a lake, its reflection in the lake.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Grateful to have short fiction in the latest issue of the Dunes Review. Truly a beautiful issue cover to cover with so many echoes between all the pieces.

An orange life vest with rocks on it on a white back ground. Dunes Review in black ink.

Back cover of Dunes Review listing the names of the contributors. Red back cover with names in white ink.

Photo of my short fiction in the latest issue of Dunes Review

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I read this book tonight. It snowed. One of my cats fell asleep on me and snored. The book is a critique of being a white woman. Of being a victim but also a perpetuator. And today a student said she read somewhere that cats challenged the patriarchy. So I made the right choice.

Reddish orange book cover with Everything I Never Wanted to Know in yellow. Below in black ink, the author’s name, Christine Hume.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I will be at #AWP26! Cannot wait to see friends and listen to amazing work being read onsite and off! My panel is Magics, Myths, and Realities in the Mississippi Delta which features a powerhouse of writers! I hope to run into some of you amazing people.

Magics, Myths & Realities in the Mississippi Delta
Ryan Coogler's cinematic
masterpiece Sinners brought the history and mythology of the Mississippi Delta to life on the big screen through a celebration of Black culture as well as a critique of whiteness. In this multigenre panel, five writers will read from their respective works to highlight the myths, magic, and struggles, as well as celebrations of Black culture and critiques of the continuation of whiteness and its violence, within the landscape of the Mississippi Delta.

Speaker(s):
• Presenter: Michael Copperman
Presenter: Sheree Renée Thomas
Presenter: W. Ralph Eubanks • Moderator: Katherine Moore
Presenter: Danian Jerry
Multiple Literary Genres Readings
Reading
Location: Room 320, Level
300, Baltimore Convention Center
Session Code: S186

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I’m reading tomorrow as part of the launch party for latest issue for The Dunes Review. Message me if you want you the zoom link!

Dunes Review Launch & Reading!
Sunday, February 15, 3:00 pm
The Dunes Review (Fall/Winter 2025, 29.2), our literary journal, has made its way to members, contributors, and patrons. Print journals are increasingly rare, but we think there is nothing like holding a print journal of good writing in your hands. A big thank you to all of our subscribers, patrons, and contributors for your ongoing support.
The Dunes Review 29.2 launch reading will be online, on Sunday, February 15, 2026, at 3:00 pm. We've found online readings to be the best way to gather during our Michigan winters, and we welcome you to join us.

Cover photo for latest issue of Dunes Review. An orange life vest with rocks hanging off of it.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I will be in Baltimore and will be moderating my first AWP panel. Come hear writers from and writers writing about the Mississippi Delta. See how their themes are in conversation with Coogler’s SINNERS. Celebrate the art of the Delta!

Speaker(s):
• Presenter: Michael Copperman
Presenter: Sheree Renée Thomas
Presenter: W. Ralph Eubanks
Moderator: Kat Moore •
Presenter: Danian Darrell Jerry
Multiple Literary Genres Readings
Reading
Location: Room 320, Level
300, Baltimore Convention Center
Session Code: S186

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Freezing at the Mount Pleasant, Michigan protest against ICE.

I’m bundled up in a gray coat and gloves holding an Abolish Ice sign. Snow is on the ground.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Ice protest in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. 16 degrees out.

Sign listing the name of those murdered by ICE

A coffin with flowers around it. A sign with a list of names of those murdered by ICE

Another sign in the snow with names of those killed by ICE

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

This Thursday night, I’m reading as part of the Meijer’s Visiting Writers Series.

Photo of Kat Moore with an announcement of her reading as part of the Meijer Visiting Writers series this Thursday, January 29th. 7:00 pm. Opperman Auditoriam, Park Library at Central Michigan University.

Kat Moore has essays in Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, River Teeth, Image, Hotel America, Passages North, Diagram, The Rumpus, and others. She has essays in the anthologies, Illmatic Consequences: The Clapback to Opponents of Critical Race Theory, and Bodies of Truth: Personal Narratives on Illness, Disability and Medicine.
She was a 2021 Bread Loaf Writers Conference Scholar in Nonfiction, and her work has also been supported by the 2022 Tin House Winter Workshop. Kat is currently a Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing at Central Michigan University.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

These are the Dems in the house who voted to fund DHS. Call and write them now to demand they resign.

Reps. Henry Cuellar (Texas),
(202) 225-1640
Jared Golden (Maine),
(202) 225-6306
Marie Gluesenkamp
Perez (Wash.),
(202) 225-3536
Laura Gillen (N.Y.), (202) 225-5516
Don Davis (N.C.),
(202) 225-3101
Tom Suozzi (N.Y.)
(202) 225-3335

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

No snow cancellations in mid-Michigan.

A snow covered parking lot with multiple SUVs parked. Trees dusted with snow.

A red brick with tan borders college building. Two empty benches. A bare tree. Snow on the ground and grass. Footprints in snow leading to the doorway.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I’m so happy it’s snowing. If it’s going to be below freezing, I want snow.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Loving this gift by @mbsycamore.bsky.social A dream rushing forward full of shine, faux fur, and dancing. “And she touched my back, and said: Where are your wings? I could feel them right then. It was the way she touched me. Like she was drawing my wings on.”

Photo of cover of Terry Dactyl by Matilda Bernstein Sycamore. Pink cover lined in black. In the pink, mouths open to catch fallen pills of silver sparkle.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I walked in the snow again today.

A field in central Michigan covered in snow. Weeds poke through. Bare trees in the distance. Gray sky with a small patch of blue and sunlight.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Today is World AIDS Day whether this fascist regime acknowledges it or not. My sweet brother. He was 16 years older than me and from my dad’s first marriage. But he was my big brother and I was his baby sister. We both loved Madonna. We both loved each other. He was a special person. Dearest Bob.

Photo of Bob in a red shirt with a white collar standing on the sidewalk.

Bob and Jeff. Sitting closely together on a couch, knees touching, Bob’s arm around Jeff’s shoulder.

A print of Bob’s patch on the AIDS Quilt.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

A movie that takes place where you're from:

Scene from the hotel in Mystery Train featuring Screaming Jay Hawkins in a red suit and Cinqué Lee in a bell hop uniform. Both sit behind a check in desk that has a sign in book, a bell, and a large fake fly.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

The Pope of Trash was hilarious tonight in Ann Arbor.

Michigan Theater marquee all lit up in gold light. In white on a black background: John Waters
Going to Extremes

A photo of a poster on the wall. The poster—John Waters dressed like a pope in hot pink.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Re-reading to teach in the grad class tomorrow night. Love the juxtapositions of art and social critique in these powerful and well-crafted essays. And the use of opera to reveal Detroit in “D is for the Dance of the Hours.”

Photo of Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit by Aisha Sabatini Sloan.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I completely checked out of reality today. I explored a pumpkin patch and corn maze. And yes, I did re-enact scenes from Children of the Corn while in the corn maze. Bought a pumpkin. Played glow in the dark Halloween deco mini-golf. Went on a silly Bigfoot tour. And watched Halloween 4.

A path in a corn maze under billowing gray clouds

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The Aurora Borealis last night from my yard. Not a full viewing. But my first time seeing it all.

A house with a swath of deep blue and green on the sky above it.

Shadow of trees against a horizon of green and dark purple giving way to a dark sky.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

My very first AWP panel. #AWP26 Magics, Myths, and Realities in the Mississippi Delta. These writers will dazzle, awe you, and educate you!

Ryan Coogler's cinematic masterpiece, Sinners, brought the history and mythology of the Mississippi Delta to life on the big screen through a celebration of Black culture as well as a critique of whiteness.
In this multi-genre panel, five writers will read from their respective works to highlight the myths, magic, struggles, as well as celebrations of Black culture and
critiques of the continuation of whiteness and its violence, within the landscape of the Mississippi Delta.
Speaker(s):
& Presenter: Michael Copperman & Presenter: Sheree Renée Thomas
Presenter: W. Ralph Eubanks & Moderator: Kat Moore & Presenter:
Danian Jerry

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

This is smoke (not clouds) from the wildfires in Canada.

A green lawn stretches to single lane street. Trees and a house in the distance. The sky is hazy and gray.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I read The Reckonings a few years ago. But so much has happened in the world and in my life since then. I’m rereading this powerful collection that looks at mercy, at justice, at how all violence (eco violence, state violence, individual and mass violence) is all connected.

Book pictured: The Reckonings by Lacy M Johnson

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Sooo good. I appreciate the way it complicates the metaphor still being inside heteronormativity.

Cover of Queer Slashers by Peter Marra. A pink cover with Jason Vorhees with his arms full of flowers.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

The best thing about moving to Michigan so far. Higgins Lake. Our second time swimming here.

Higgins lake. Crystal blue clear water with gentle waves. A few people on floats.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

My sister directed the film, The Subject. It won lots of awards at indie film fests. She was amazing and brilliant. A shining star. She taught me how to read. She always encouraged me to be myself. To be who I am. A force of love. My big sister. The best sister.

Me and my sister as little girls in the snow.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Saw Friday the 13th on Friday the 13th at the Alamo Drafthouse with a group of friends. Our last Friday night in Denton. I will miss the Alamo. And of course my dear friends.

Poster for the original Friday the 13th.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

A rare cool Texas evening. We walked around campus so I could say goodbye. We head to Michigan on Monday. I start my post doc fellowship in creative writing in August at a university up there.

I’m standing in front of a large circular fountain with water spraying up out of it. I’m in a black dress, glasses, and sandals, smiling with my arms slightly extended outward.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I will always believe Pee Wee Herman rode off to live happily ever after with Joe Maganiello.

Pee Wee putting a friendship bracelet on Joe’s wrist. They sit facing each other, knees touching, with soft white light from string lights inside a small treehouse.

Joe and Pee Wee, both in gray suits with red bow ties, dance in sparkling white lights.

Joe places a helmet on Pee Wee as they prepare to drive off on the same motorcycle together.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Just saw the old SoCal punk band, Agent Orange, at a random street fest a ten minute walk from my house. That was a blast.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The semester ended. I spend the day sorting and packing. Then I read. Then I stay up very late watching a movie. Favorite quotes from last night’s movie: Hell is a teenage girl. I’m a god. No, I’m killing boys. You got a tampon.

Tv on a wooden stand. On the tv, a close up shot of the end of a teenage girl’s bed with Jennifer’s Body written in pink cursive.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

We got the momma cat and her kittens to the shelter. Momma cat swatted at first, but now she is happy and is enjoying being cared for. She is also already pregnant again. No more streets for her. And we can move away knowing all the feral cats of Sena St are being taken care of.

Momma cat (white belly and paws with grey strips everywhere else except for nose and mouth area which are white too) standing in a gravel driveway looking at the camera.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

These kittens like me, but I cannot keep them. But where I’m taking them tomorrow, kittens get adopted very fast. And it’s no kill.

Two kittens snuggled in a blue blanket on my lap.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Caught two feral kittens. Tank jr (black and white one with a mustache because he looks identical to our neighbor’s cat, Tank) and Little Pepper. Taking them tomorrow to be dewormed, shots, spay/neuter (when they are big enough), and to be put up for adoption.

Two kittens in a kennel. One grey and black striped tabby and a tuxedo kitty with a black mustache.

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Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Watched The Exorcist with friends last night. Then I recommended Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist by Marlena Williams. Today, I started a second read on it. So good.

Book cover. Green tinted. Stairs inside a house leading up to a second floor. Carpet over the steps. (The steps that Regan spider walked in the movie) Title in center in white: Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist.

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