I’m a storyteller at heart, with a love for short, speculative fiction and creative nonfiction. My stories appear in Best Microfiction 2023, Cease, Cows, Ghost Parachute, Fractured Lit, The Molotov Cockatil, and more. I edit One Wild Ride, a limited-run online literary journal with stories about caring for our aging parents and those who raised us. I’m also a proud MFA candidate at Randolph College.
Over more than two decades, I’ve been a journalist with the PBS NewsHour, Colorado Public Radio, and Aspen Public Radio, as well as a nonprofit communications leader.
I write fiction in the tradition of contemporary speculative authors, including Mary South, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Clare Beams, and my Randolph mentor Anjali Sachdeva. My creative nonfiction and One Wild Ride, are inspired by authors and advocates like Atul Gawande, essayists like Elissa Altman, and graphic artists like Roz Chast. I also am an avid consumer of detective stories, space opera, as well as news, ideas, and open discourse.
Featured Publications
Prose
Hardy Holds Court at the Corner Store, Cease, Cows, September 2022, Best Microfiction 2023
Fire in the Teak Fields, Ghost Parachute, February 2023
Dementia’s Orphans, Superstition Review, January 2023 (creative nonfiction & interview)
The Borrowers, Top 10 in The Molotov Cocktail’s Folked Up Flash Contest, March 2022; Runner Up, WOW Flash Fiction Contest Fall 2022
Book Reviews
Review & Interview: Sue Mell’s Giving Care, Heavy Feather Review, December 2022
An Ailing Parent and Unabashed Honesty: A Review of Mothercare: Love, Death, and Ambivalence, Literary Mama, November 2022
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As one of the 1/4 of adults in their 40’s or 50’s caring for an aging parent, I have found strength and hope in stories about the ups and downs of caregiving. I edit a limited-run online journal for stories on the topic, called One Wild Ride.
Contact
Questions? E-mail Kristina at kristina dot saccone at gmail dot com.
Kristina T. Saccone 