Kait Gets Lit

Kait Heacock is a writer, book publicist, and the readings manager at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle. Her work centers the lives of women and non-binary folks, particularly those in the queer community. Her writing, which has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, can be read in literary places including The Evergreen Review, Joyland, Literary Hub, The Millions, PANK, and Women’s Review of Books.

Fiction

  • “Girl Power” in Northwest Review, November 2021
  • “50 Quarantine Fantasies (Selections)” in Evergreen Review, July 2020
  • “The Girl” in Joyland Magazine, September 2016
  • “Independent Contractor Agreement” in The EEEL (print), January 2016
  • “The Fiction Student, or the Mystery is Gone” in Luna Luna, August 2014
  • “The Closing of Joe’s Bar” in Clackamas Literary Review (print), July 2014
  • “Third-Party Agreement” in The EEEL (print), June 2014
  • “Upstairs” in Vol. 1 Brooklyn, April 2013; reprinted in Esquire Russia, April 2014
  • “Return From Oz” in KGB Bar Lit Magazine, March 2014
  • “Sirens” serialized in PDXX Collective, July-August 2013
  • “The Storyteller” in The Citron Review, July 2013
  • “Father and Daughter” in Portland Review (print), February 2013

Non-fiction

  • “Lesser Bad Girls of the Nineties: TV Edition” in Liber Review, November 2022
  • “Listen Up: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” in Women’s Review of Books (print and online), November/December 2021
  • “Can I be a Drug Advocate as the Sister of a Drug Addict?” in The Her(b) Life, March 2019
  • “Phantom Limb” in Black River, March 2019
  • “Write Stoned, Edit Sober” in Submittable, July 2018
  • “Glossophobia” in Vol. 1 Brooklyn, February 2018
  • “When Your Hometown is the Last Place to Accept Who You Are” in Literary Hub, May 2017
  • “Tom Robbins was my Spiritual Adviser” in The Millions, January 2017
  • “Wild Unknown Country” in Hobart Pulp, January 2017
  • “What We Talk About When We Talk About Titles” in Vol. 1 Brooklyn, October 2016
  • “Book Notes” in Largehearted Boy, October 2016
  • “10 Short Stories for the International Day of the Girl” in Lit Hub, October 2016
  • “The Third Thing That Killed My Brother” in Crab Creek Review, October 2016
  • “The year I got honest with myself: I’m queer and not cut out for monogamy” in The Washington Post’s Solo-ish, March 2016
  • “My trip down Mirena lane” in The Washington Post’s Solo-ish, September 2015
  • “The hardest question for me to answer on a date: ‘How many siblings do you have?’” in The Washington Post’s Solo-ish, June 2015
  • “Hometown” in The Bushwick Review, June 2015
  • “Is Weed a Women’s Issue?” in DAME, April 2015
  • “‘I’m telling the stories that I want to tell.’ A conversation with Cristina Moracho” in Late Night Library, March 2015
  • “I Spent A Year Following #ReadWomen2014, And I Learned 5 Big Lessons From Reading Female Voices” in Bustle, February 2015
  • “’One Relieves the Other’: Eileen Myles on Second Novels, Poet’s Novels, and Punctuation” in Vol. 1 Brooklyn, January 2015
  • “Church Exit Interview Form” in The EEEL, January 2015
  • “Feminist Porn and Erotica for Women Are Easier to Find Than You’d Think, Thanks to Erika Lust” in Bustle, December 2014
  • “Carver’s Country” in Vol. 1 Brooklyn, November 2014
  • “The 2014 Bad Sex In Fiction Award Nominees Are Writing About Sex In Isolation From the Rest of the Story — That’s the Problem” in Bustle, November 2014

Reviews and Interviews

  • “Monster Mash: It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror edited by Joe Vallese” reviewed in Liber Review, October 2022
  • “S.O.S.: Householders By Kate Cayley” reviewed in Women’s Review of Books (print), November/December 2021
  • “Eyes Open: The Ugly Cry by Danielle Henderson” reviewed in Women’s Review of Books (print), May/June 2021
  • “Drawn Like Teen Spirit: Justine by Forsyth Harmon” reviewed in Women’s Review of Books (print), March/April 2021
  • “Kill Thrill: An Interview With Crime Author Emily Schultz” in Women’s Review of Books (print), November/December 2020
  • “Beginnings And Ends: We Had No Rules by Corinne Manning” reviewed in Women’s Review of Books (print), July/August 2020
  • “Love And Death: Boys of Alabama By Genevieve Hudson” reviewed in Women’s Review of Books (print), May/June 2020
  • “One Under The Other: Subduction By Kristen Millares Young” reviewed in Women’s Review of Books (print), March/April 2020
  • “Review: Pretend We Live Here by Genevieve Hudson” in PANK, February 2020
  • “The Writer’s Writer: Questions and Answers with Michelle Tea“ in Women’s Review of Books (print), January/February 2020
  • “Pain Pals: Q and A With Amy Long” in WROB (print), November/December 2019
  • “Home Turf: Q and A With Samantha Allen” in WROB (print), September/Oct. 2019
  • “Feelings: Q and A With Berenice Malka Fisher” in WROB (print), July/August 2019
  • “The Serpent Under’t: My Sister, the Serial Killer By Oyinkan Braithwaite” reviewed in Women’s Review of Books (print), May/June 2019
  • “Anger Management: Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger By Soraya Chemaly” reviewed in Women’s Review of Books (print), November/December 2018
  • “Shame Theory: Pure By Linda Kay Klein” reviewed in Women’s Review of Books (print), September/October 2018
  • “Charged: The Power By Naomi Alderman” reviewed in Women’s Review of Books (print), July/August 2018
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