Kristine Kopperud's nonfiction has won the Diana Woods Memorial Award for Creative Nonfiction at Lunch Ticket and appears in several anthologies and pubs, including Southeast Review, Creative Nonfiction | Sunday Short Reads, River Teeth, Hippocampus, MUTHA magazine, Literary Mama, and HuffPost. Her chapbook, Jaw Wiring: What You Need to Know, won the Flash Nonfiction Competition at Sweet: A Literary Confection and was nominated for a Pushcart. She's a grateful alumna of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Writer-to-Writer mentorship program and a trained death doula, now working in Florida. She curates hope and agency in end-of-life care at otherwaysout.substack.com.
“The chickens are always in twos,” my 16-year-old says, watching our laying hens grub with clawed toes, then peer at the ground, tilting their heads for a close look, just outside our kitchen window. (I think) my daughter is distracting herself from the homework on the counter in front of her. School is often miserable for both of us, a… Read more →