WRITING | Kateri Kramer

An Obituary to the Land

Unearthed

Amidst minty juniper shrubs and the canary yellow palo verde trees of New Mexico’s painted desert lie the bodies of thousands of migratory birds.

7 Ways of Looking at a Mountain

Axon Creative Explorations

The first mountain I summitted, Square Top, towered 1,994 feet above Naylor lake, a private fishing lake where my father was a caretaker in his 20s.

Dictionary of Hands

Barren Magazine

In the days after my dad died 5 years ago, what I missed most was the way he’d press his wide, heavy hand into the space between my shoulder blades as if he were pressing calm

Ghost Stories

Trampset Magazine

In Vienna, a city of ghosts, amidst linen-colored marble, it wasn’t the unfamiliarity that discomforted me but knowing this city of ornate

Interview with Max Porter

Parhelion Literary Magazine

Market Day

5x5 Magazine

From my bed inside this forgotten and lonely monastery turned into a hotel, I can hear the thump thump of Mayan tortillas being pat.

Berry Picking

The Grief Diaries

There is a clunky, beige van making its way down a highway in Colorado. One. Two. Three. Ten. Twenty-Eight. Thirty-Four. One hundred and two.

A BIT ABOUT MY WRITING

I am a graduate of the Mile High MFA at Regis University where I studied non-fiction writing under the direction of David Lazar, Kathryn Winograd, Chip Livingston, and Sophfronia Scott.

I enjoy exploring hybrid forms and hermit crab essays, especially when writing about my grief and the death of my father. Many of my essays are accompanied by illustrations.

I have been published in Barren Creative Nonfiction Magazine, Axon Creative Explorations, 5x5, and more. Read them below.