Kristi D. Osorio
@kristiosorio.bsky.social
Writer, editor, educator. Winner of the 2023 Indiana Review Creative Nonfiction Prize and the Sonora Review Mercy Contest in Nonfiction. kristiosorio.com
📍 Lubbock, TX.
📍 Lubbock, TX.
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
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Kristin Collier’s mother took out hundreds of thousands of dollars of private student loans in her daughter’s name. But as @kwistent.bsky.social explains, Collier’s new book on student debt doesn’t cast her as a villain.
The Family Loan | Kristen Martin
The American student loan system assumes and reinforces familial financial entanglement.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Kristin Collier’s mother took out hundreds of thousands of dollars of private student loans in her daughter’s name. But as @kwistent.bsky.social explains, Collier’s new book on student debt doesn’t cast her as a villain.
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!!!! So gratified to have this story enjoy a wide reach, especially since foster care is a really under-covered topic. Read it here: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
!!!! So gratified to have this story enjoy a wide reach, especially since foster care is a really under-covered topic. Read it here: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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"I can never tear myself away from who I am, and at my core, I’m a poet."
Permanent Knots and Anti-Colonial Archives: @nxo.bsky.social interviews Daniela Catrileo about Chilco (@fsgbooks.bsky.social).
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Permanent Knots and Anti-Colonial Archives: @nxo.bsky.social interviews Daniela Catrileo about Chilco (@fsgbooks.bsky.social).
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November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"I can never tear myself away from who I am, and at my core, I’m a poet."
Permanent Knots and Anti-Colonial Archives: @nxo.bsky.social interviews Daniela Catrileo about Chilco (@fsgbooks.bsky.social).
➡️ buff.ly/zK9FU3H
Permanent Knots and Anti-Colonial Archives: @nxo.bsky.social interviews Daniela Catrileo about Chilco (@fsgbooks.bsky.social).
➡️ buff.ly/zK9FU3H
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Spread the word: we're searching for the right people for two critical roles at KR: Director of The Writers Workshop and Programs and Special Projects Administrator.
Find the job descriptions and applications at the link in our bio.
Find the job descriptions and applications at the link in our bio.
September 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Spread the word: we're searching for the right people for two critical roles at KR: Director of The Writers Workshop and Programs and Special Projects Administrator.
Find the job descriptions and applications at the link in our bio.
Find the job descriptions and applications at the link in our bio.
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We are seeking cover art for our winter issue!
Send us up to 8 pieces to consider. It’s free to submit. Payment is one contributor copy and a small honorarium.
Full details: tinyurl.com/shocoverart
Send us up to 8 pieces to consider. It’s free to submit. Payment is one contributor copy and a small honorarium.
Full details: tinyurl.com/shocoverart
September 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
We are seeking cover art for our winter issue!
Send us up to 8 pieces to consider. It’s free to submit. Payment is one contributor copy and a small honorarium.
Full details: tinyurl.com/shocoverart
Send us up to 8 pieces to consider. It’s free to submit. Payment is one contributor copy and a small honorarium.
Full details: tinyurl.com/shocoverart
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Get those poems, graphic narratives, and flash prose pieces ready! The Commuter will be open for submissions from 9/15 - 9/21, or until our submission cap is reached ⚡ 💡 We can't wait to read your work!
September 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Get those poems, graphic narratives, and flash prose pieces ready! The Commuter will be open for submissions from 9/15 - 9/21, or until our submission cap is reached ⚡ 💡 We can't wait to read your work!
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📢 Call for Readers!
Iron Horse Literary Review is looking for new Readers to join our team! If you’re connected to Creative Writing through a graduate program, teaching, or publication experience, we’d love to hear from you.
Interested? Send a brief application to ihlr.mail@gmail.com
Iron Horse Literary Review is looking for new Readers to join our team! If you’re connected to Creative Writing through a graduate program, teaching, or publication experience, we’d love to hear from you.
Interested? Send a brief application to ihlr.mail@gmail.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
📢 Call for Readers!
Iron Horse Literary Review is looking for new Readers to join our team! If you’re connected to Creative Writing through a graduate program, teaching, or publication experience, we’d love to hear from you.
Interested? Send a brief application to ihlr.mail@gmail.com
Iron Horse Literary Review is looking for new Readers to join our team! If you’re connected to Creative Writing through a graduate program, teaching, or publication experience, we’d love to hear from you.
Interested? Send a brief application to ihlr.mail@gmail.com
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This weekend is the last chance to get your work in.
Submissions close Sunday at midnight (PT).
Submit: shopoetryjournal.submittable.com
Submissions close Sunday at midnight (PT).
Submit: shopoetryjournal.submittable.com
Submissions close in 6 days! We're looking for more work to fill our pages for Shō No. 8 (Winter 2025/26).
Submit: shopoetryjournal.submittable.com
Submit: shopoetryjournal.submittable.com
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August 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This weekend is the last chance to get your work in.
Submissions close Sunday at midnight (PT).
Submit: shopoetryjournal.submittable.com
Submissions close Sunday at midnight (PT).
Submit: shopoetryjournal.submittable.com
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If you're sending out work this weekend, please keep us in mind.
• Payment is one contributor copy
• We nominate for Best New Poets, Best Spiritual Lit, and the Pushcart Prize
• We award prize money for best poem in issue and best poem by an emerging poet
• Payment is one contributor copy
• We nominate for Best New Poets, Best Spiritual Lit, and the Pushcart Prize
• We award prize money for best poem in issue and best poem by an emerging poet
June 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
If you're sending out work this weekend, please keep us in mind.
• Payment is one contributor copy
• We nominate for Best New Poets, Best Spiritual Lit, and the Pushcart Prize
• We award prize money for best poem in issue and best poem by an emerging poet
• Payment is one contributor copy
• We nominate for Best New Poets, Best Spiritual Lit, and the Pushcart Prize
• We award prize money for best poem in issue and best poem by an emerging poet
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"Nonfiction allows me to write the truth of my experience in a world that seeks to silence this truth. There is a freedom in the genre that girls and women are not afforded in our current cultural and political climate." ~ @sfmontgomery.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/s...
Small Spaces, Small Stories: Essaying the Lives of Girls and Women
Sarah Fawn Montgomery Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s small collection of small essays, Abbreviate, examines how the injustice and violence of girlhood leads women to accept—and even claim—small spaces and…
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June 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
"Nonfiction allows me to write the truth of my experience in a world that seeks to silence this truth. There is a freedom in the genre that girls and women are not afforded in our current cultural and political climate." ~ @sfmontgomery.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/s...
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It's not too late to send us your manuscript! We're still accepting poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, hybrid work, chapbooks, anthologies, and more.
Full submission guidelines are on our website and our Submittable. We can't wait to read your work!
blacklawrencepress.com/submissions-...
Full submission guidelines are on our website and our Submittable. We can't wait to read your work!
blacklawrencepress.com/submissions-...
June 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
It's not too late to send us your manuscript! We're still accepting poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, hybrid work, chapbooks, anthologies, and more.
Full submission guidelines are on our website and our Submittable. We can't wait to read your work!
blacklawrencepress.com/submissions-...
Full submission guidelines are on our website and our Submittable. We can't wait to read your work!
blacklawrencepress.com/submissions-...
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SUBMIT TODAY at the link in our bio!
June 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
SUBMIT TODAY at the link in our bio!
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Lee Cole recalls being a working class writer attending a prestigious MFA program and considers the absence of working class perspectives in our literary institutions.
What Does It Mean To Be a Working Class Writer at Iowa Writers’ Workshop?
When I arrived at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, I was sure there’d been some mistake. After all, it was the most selective MFA program in the country, and the odds of acceptance were exceedingly low.…
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June 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Lee Cole recalls being a working class writer attending a prestigious MFA program and considers the absence of working class perspectives in our literary institutions.
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An actual summer reading list of real books compiled by real critics! I'm in here singing praises of Alice Bolin's new collection: www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...
17 new books our critics can't wait to read this summer
We asked some of our trusted critics which upcoming books they are most looking forward to. Here are the fiction and nonfiction titles they picked.
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May 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
An actual summer reading list of real books compiled by real critics! I'm in here singing praises of Alice Bolin's new collection: www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...
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Mark your calendars: Shō Poetry Journal opens for submissions on June 1! We’ll be reading for our winter issue, Shō No. 8.
May 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Mark your calendars: Shō Poetry Journal opens for submissions on June 1! We’ll be reading for our winter issue, Shō No. 8.
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This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.
May 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.
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Free shipping at @bookshop.org until midnight!
@bookshop.org has free shipping today for Independent Bookstore Day! You can order my book at a great price and support indies: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood
The Dark History of American Orphanhood
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April 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Free shipping at @bookshop.org until midnight!
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We're so lucky to have this interview! Check out @kristiosorio.bsky.social and Sarah Perry discuss the cliché of memory, vulnerability, and "the sweetness of survival" @adroitjournal.bsky.social !
It was an honor and a joy to talk with Sarah Perry about her new book, moving on from the Murder Memoir, and so much more! Check out our conversation over at @adroitjournal.bsky.social. theadroitjournal.org/2025/04/09/a...
A Conversation with Sarah Perry - The Adroit Journal
Sarah Perry is the author of the memoir After the Eclipse, which was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a Poets & Writers Notable Nonfiction Debut, and a Barnes & Noble Discover pick....
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April 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
We're so lucky to have this interview! Check out @kristiosorio.bsky.social and Sarah Perry discuss the cliché of memory, vulnerability, and "the sweetness of survival" @adroitjournal.bsky.social !
It was an honor and a joy to talk with Sarah Perry about her new book, moving on from the Murder Memoir, and so much more! Check out our conversation over at @adroitjournal.bsky.social. theadroitjournal.org/2025/04/09/a...
A Conversation with Sarah Perry - The Adroit Journal
Sarah Perry is the author of the memoir After the Eclipse, which was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a Poets & Writers Notable Nonfiction Debut, and a Barnes & Noble Discover pick....
theadroitjournal.org
April 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
It was an honor and a joy to talk with Sarah Perry about her new book, moving on from the Murder Memoir, and so much more! Check out our conversation over at @adroitjournal.bsky.social. theadroitjournal.org/2025/04/09/a...
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As an author, the last thing I need is for AI to engage with my book. I hope for real readers and critics to connect with it, and do respond to it as humans. And as a freelance critic, I want media outlets to invest in substantive reviews and essays, and to pay critics for our labor appropriately.
This morning I got a Google alert that my book THE SUN WON’T COME OUT TOMORROW was featured on a 7-min podcast episode, with a review. I listened to it and realized it was produced by AI, which I guess means they either fed the book or reviews of it through an LLM. These are the AI avatars:
April 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
As an author, the last thing I need is for AI to engage with my book. I hope for real readers and critics to connect with it, and do respond to it as humans. And as a freelance critic, I want media outlets to invest in substantive reviews and essays, and to pay critics for our labor appropriately.
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Family vloggers Ruby Franke and the Stauffers invited viewers into their children’s most personal moments and profited. Then, they behaved unspeakably. Two new docs track their downfalls and yet again turn kids into content. My essay for the @nytimes.com mag: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/m...
Their Influencer Parents Used Them as Content. Are They Being Used Again Now?
The same children who were fodder for family influencers have become uneasy fodder for streaming documentaries.
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April 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Family vloggers Ruby Franke and the Stauffers invited viewers into their children’s most personal moments and profited. Then, they behaved unspeakably. Two new docs track their downfalls and yet again turn kids into content. My essay for the @nytimes.com mag: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/m...
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The latest issue of @readlux.bsky.social is now avail online as well as in print! I wrote about the worst book I have ever read—Colleen Hoover's IT ENDS WITH US—juxtaposing it against a far more nuanced and compelling DV story, Chelsea Bieker's MADWOMAN. Gift link: lux-magazine.com/article/dome...
Bad, Mad, Sad - Lux Magazine
It Ends with Us is chock-full of clichés about domestic violence. There are other stories out there.
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March 31, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The latest issue of @readlux.bsky.social is now avail online as well as in print! I wrote about the worst book I have ever read—Colleen Hoover's IT ENDS WITH US—juxtaposing it against a far more nuanced and compelling DV story, Chelsea Bieker's MADWOMAN. Gift link: lux-magazine.com/article/dome...