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Kristen Millares Young @kristenmillares.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I am going to share a Substack series of writing prompts I've designed to inspire new pages. First up is "investigate a silence." Yes, I am much delayed in clambering aboard this train. Give me a hand and a follow? I'll make it worth your while. substack.com/profile/1596...

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Kristen Millares Young (@kristenmillares)

Hi friends, I am a writer, a steadfast feminist, a community builder, a mother of two children, and a survivor. During a panel about portraying bad relationships, a discussion to which I had been inv...

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Kristen Millares Young @kristenmillares.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

¡Sí! DESIRE LINES was named a 2026 most anticipated feminist book by @karlajstrand.com in @msmagazine.com. "Kristen Millares Young’s debut memoir explores womanhood, motherhood, liberation and embodiment with an eye toward uncovering truths that awaken and enlighten." msmagazine.com/2026/01/12/a...

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Reads for the Rest of Us: The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2026

So, here are the top 94 feminist books we’re looking forward to in 2026—written by women, feminists, LGBTQ writers, writers of color, and more.

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Kristen Millares Young @kristenmillares.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

These twelve books form a very contemporary canon of feminist Icelandic literature translated into English. As poet & novelist Kristín Ómarsdóttir told me, “The story of literature is long. It did not begin ten years ago.” Takk fyrir. @electricliterature.com electricliterature.com/12-must-read...

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12 Must-Read Feminist Books by Icelandic Women Writers - Electric Literature

These writers invoke the incongruence of living in country that leads in gender equity but persists in misogynistic disregard

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Kristen Millares Young @kristenmillares.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

For the past five years, I have crisscrossed our state to offer free & bilingual writing classes to more than 850 students in 50 towns & cities. My very last Humanities Washington class is Tuesday night at Folio in Pike Place Market. 12/9 at 6. Register here: www.folioseattle.org/event-detail...

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How to Write a Family Portrait / Cómo escribir un retrato familiar | FOLIO SEATTLE

In partnership with Humanities Washington

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Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

"Caldwell shows readers how to endure catastrophe with aplomb; there can be no better recommendation for literature." — @kristenmillares.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com TRYING is out today! 🎉🎉 www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

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Review | Her fertility struggles were gutting. Then came her husband’s infidelity.

Chloé Caldwell began writing “Trying” to document her desire to conceive a baby, but the memoir turned into a chronicle of much more.

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Kristen Millares Young @kristenmillares.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

With support from 4Culture, I'm collaborating with Majel Reyes Quesada, based in Havana, to translate my memoir-in-essays Desire Lines into Senderos del deseo. I'll also narrate and record the Desire Lines audio book to be published October 6, 2026 by @redhenpress.bsky.social. Thank you to 4Culture!

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Kristen Millares Young @kristenmillares.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Melissa Febos's great power is pairing structural rigor with emotional disclosure. By reclaiming her focus with celibacy, she replenished her erotic sense of selfhood, what Lorde called “an assertion of the life force of women.” Read my @washingtonpost.com review of THE DRY SEASON. wapo.st/43FKMGi

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Review | A writer gave up sex for a year and discovered pleasure

In “The Dry Season,” Melissa Febos recalls her decision to turn away from the lovers whose desires had dominated her thoughts and directed her habits.

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Kristen Millares Young @kristenmillares.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Folklife! Come to SIFF Film Center Sat. 5/24 for Glimmers in the Night. 2:30. When I need a poem, a spell, or advice, Anastacia-Reneé's got it. She has something for you too. We both do. 167 Republican St. On Friday, I'll give two free workshops, same place, English at 6:30 y en español a las 8.

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Kristen Millares Young @kristenmillares.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

To hone your craft as a writer, consider the low residency MFA program of the OSU-Cascades campus in Bend. I teach with Kim Johnson, Beth Alvarado, Irene & Mike Cooper, Christopher Boucher, T Geronimo Johnson, Ellen Waterston & Jeff Fearnside. Applications due 6/1. osucascades.edu/academics/mf...

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Kristen Millares Young @kristenmillares.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Spokane's calling. At Get Lit! Festival, I’ll discuss silence in narrative with Margot Kahn, Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum & Molly Olguín. 4/12 at 10:30, Montvale Event Center, Ella’s Theater. At 9 that night, I’ll read at Emma Rue’s with Foray for the Arts. I-90 keeps going; I brake for literature.

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Kristen Millares Young @kristenmillares.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

🇮🇸, here I come. As a fellow UNESCO City of Literature, Reykjavík has launched an annual residency for writers from around the world. In November, I'll interview Icelandic authors and attend readings. Once I have a sense of their literary culture, I’ll write a story to be translated into Icelandic.

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Kristen Millares Young @kristenmillares.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

“We are completely interdependent,” said Margo Okazawa-Rey. “Let us reclaim & reinforce our commitments to each other. We've given away too much of our power partly because we think what we are doing is individual.” #cohimbeerivercollective @townhallseattle.bsky.social @uwpubliclectures.bsky.social

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Kristen Millares Young @kristenmillares.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

My memoir will be published by @redhenpress.bsky.social on October 6, 2026. DESIRE LINES is an investigation into the emotional topography of womanhood. At its heart is Cybele—the great mother goddess I pursued through pagan temples, the archives of the Louvre, and the deepest reaches of history.

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Kristen Millares Young @kristenmillares.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Seattle Met keeps a big Seattle reading list, and I'm glad SUBDUCTION is included for prose “at once poetic and punching" with “sentences taut yet lush.” www.seattlemet.com/arts-and-cul... @redhenpress.bsky.social

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Kristen Millares Young @kristenmillares.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Ticket sold out for the next Lit Lounge. Host & vibe setter Jodi-Ann Burey & Kisa Nishimoto know how to curate a night. I’ll perform with Monica West & Quenton Baker, feat. DJ Topspin & @mamsbooksandthings.bsky.social at The Station in Columbia City. Sign up for the next one 3/21: litlounge.art

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Kristen Millares Young @kristenmillares.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Most people, when they fall in love with someone who does not reciprocate their affection, hide their distress if they can, to save face. Not Tree Abraham. ELSESHIP begins where most love stories end. wapo.st/4aE9iL7 #bookreview #washingtonpost #lgbtq #memoir #creativenonfiction #unrequited #love

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Review | An unconventional love story that’s over before it begins

In “Elseship,” Tree Abraham looks back, in forensic detail, at her futile romantic obsession with a former housemate.

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Kristen Millares Young @kristenmillares.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

A sparkly launch night at Elliott Bay Book Company for ELITA, called "a slow burn mystery with potent characters" by a rave WaPo review. Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, Tara Conklin & I talked about working motherhood and fictional landscapes. #nordir #noir #feminist #mystery #novel #seattle #literature

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