Katie Robinson
@ktrobinson.bsky.social
writer of poetry, fiction, & creative nonfiction
sometimes surreal, sometimes flash, grappling with themes of motherhood, dystopias, mental unraveling, Southern writing, place in physical bodies, and more.
www.katierobinsonwrites.com
sometimes surreal, sometimes flash, grappling with themes of motherhood, dystopias, mental unraveling, Southern writing, place in physical bodies, and more.
www.katierobinsonwrites.com
This is my beautiful sister! The brightest light! She was snatched from us November 2. Praying for justice. Waiting for Macbeth 3.4 to unfold.
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 AM
This is my beautiful sister! The brightest light! She was snatched from us November 2. Praying for justice. Waiting for Macbeth 3.4 to unfold.
While writing a story this week, I intended to give a woman a pet skunk. I think I gave her a mental breakdown instead. Oh well. The skunk will go to another character another day.
September 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
While writing a story this week, I intended to give a woman a pet skunk. I think I gave her a mental breakdown instead. Oh well. The skunk will go to another character another day.
Spent the past week with this beautiful collection! “Sugar Babies” and “Ghost Sickness” make excellent bookends for all these significant stories.
September 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Spent the past week with this beautiful collection! “Sugar Babies” and “Ghost Sickness” make excellent bookends for all these significant stories.
Lovely poem split between the realities of motherhood!
Next poem from Issue 6 evoked visceral #nostalgia for me — I was right back in my nursing chair with my first newborn, feeling the contractions and the sleepiness and the overwhelming, sacrificial love. And the clarity that can come from that.
Mother’s Shadow by @vignettes.bsky.social
Mother’s Shadow by @vignettes.bsky.social
MOTHER'S SHADOW -
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September 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Lovely poem split between the realities of motherhood!
Been busy writing my thesis! Nine pages left! Here’s a cat picture!
September 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Been busy writing my thesis! Nine pages left! Here’s a cat picture!
@stonecirclereview.bsky.social Thank you for replaying my piece!
Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Embracing through the Trickling Nights" by Katie Robinson (@ktrobinson.bsky.social)
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July 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
@stonecirclereview.bsky.social Thank you for replaying my piece!
Book clutter is acceptable clutter.
July 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Book clutter is acceptable clutter.
Was taking a selfie with my girl Marlowe and then she did this. 💛
May 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Was taking a selfie with my girl Marlowe and then she did this. 💛
Am I the only one who reads Andor as and/or? Yes? OK…
April 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Am I the only one who reads Andor as and/or? Yes? OK…
I am OBSESSED with Buford the dog who rescued a two-year-old lost in the AZ wilderness. who’sagoodboyyy?!
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Dozens searched for a missing 2-year-old in the Arizona desert. Buford the dog was the real hero.
The 6-year-old Anatolian Pyrenees came home Tuesday morning with a toddler who'd gone missing the day before in a remote part of Arizona.
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April 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I am OBSESSED with Buford the dog who rescued a two-year-old lost in the AZ wilderness. who’sagoodboyyy?!
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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I met this squirrel at the Grand Canyon today.
April 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I met this squirrel at the Grand Canyon today.
“In Alice’s stories the mother always dies. Or is dead already. Or is absent in a way that suggests, to the perceptive reader, that she is likely dead.”
I’ve had my heart set on Milk Candy Review for a while and am so excited to have my flash find a home there today! milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/03/20/t... #flashfiction
The Story Where the Mother Dies in Childbirth ~ by Emily Rinkema
In Alice’s stories the mother always dies. Or is dead already. Or is absent in a way that suggests, to the perceptive reader, that she is likely dead. There are mother figures, maybe a step-mother …
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March 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
“In Alice’s stories the mother always dies. Or is dead already. Or is absent in a way that suggests, to the perceptive reader, that she is likely dead.”
Compelling piece on the necessary process of storytelling and revision.
"When I teach my students about ChatGPT and storytelling, I always make them read that chapter in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones, the one where a family escapes a flood caused by a hurricane, and I tell them that the story exists because of rage, and because of love." Stunning essay by Geetha Iyer.
"I have been teaching my students that humans are storytellers by nature, and that ChatGPT is neither a storyteller nor product of nature."
From “Exquisite Corpus”, a new Insight piece by Geetha Iyer, read it at The Offing today! theoffingmag.com/insight/exqu...
From “Exquisite Corpus”, a new Insight piece by Geetha Iyer, read it at The Offing today! theoffingmag.com/insight/exqu...
March 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Compelling piece on the necessary process of storytelling and revision.
Worst teammate ever. “Team lift” pfffft
March 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Worst teammate ever. “Team lift” pfffft
Things people without chronic pain might not understand: When I get low on my migraine abortive med (insurance only covers 8 pills a month), I sometimes suck on a mint to trick my body into thinking I’m taking medicine (the med is mint-flavored) to get it to heal itself. Never works.
March 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Things people without chronic pain might not understand: When I get low on my migraine abortive med (insurance only covers 8 pills a month), I sometimes suck on a mint to trick my body into thinking I’m taking medicine (the med is mint-flavored) to get it to heal itself. Never works.
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can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
March 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
Like I was saying…
March 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Like I was saying…
I heard somebody knocking on my window. 😱
February 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I heard somebody knocking on my window. 😱
Upon trying out new cake pans (after refusing to bake cakes for a decade).
Kt: [in a deep growl] “Cake’s back on the menu, boys!”
E (age 14) and J (age 11): …
Kt: Like in Lord of the Rings…
E and J: We know.
Kt: When the orc says—
E and J: We know.
Kt: [in a deep growl] “Cake’s back on the menu, boys!”
E (age 14) and J (age 11): …
Kt: Like in Lord of the Rings…
E and J: We know.
Kt: When the orc says—
E and J: We know.
February 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Upon trying out new cake pans (after refusing to bake cakes for a decade).
Kt: [in a deep growl] “Cake’s back on the menu, boys!”
E (age 14) and J (age 11): …
Kt: Like in Lord of the Rings…
E and J: We know.
Kt: When the orc says—
E and J: We know.
Kt: [in a deep growl] “Cake’s back on the menu, boys!”
E (age 14) and J (age 11): …
Kt: Like in Lord of the Rings…
E and J: We know.
Kt: When the orc says—
E and J: We know.
I resisted this for years and scoffed at the idea; however, I have come to terms with the reality in my middle age that I do indeed need to purchase a label maker.
February 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I resisted this for years and scoffed at the idea; however, I have come to terms with the reality in my middle age that I do indeed need to purchase a label maker.
10+ inches of snow in coastal VA! Approved by the lab!
February 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
10+ inches of snow in coastal VA! Approved by the lab!
This sun catcher is giving me the happiest Beauty and the Beast vibes. The sun rises outside the kitchen window by the sink and often gives me a migraine while I do dishes, but now I get to admire this dude. Bought as a fundraiser for a local wildlife rehab group (Wild Baby Raccoon Rescue).
February 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This sun catcher is giving me the happiest Beauty and the Beast vibes. The sun rises outside the kitchen window by the sink and often gives me a migraine while I do dishes, but now I get to admire this dude. Bought as a fundraiser for a local wildlife rehab group (Wild Baby Raccoon Rescue).
Love this piece by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social “I should have told you that I can’t look at stars because their distance is measured in years, that I don’t acknowledge birthdays, that there wouldn’t be a second date because two points make a timeline.”
New OPEN Finalist by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social "On our first date, our only date, I lied to you when you asked me about my biggest fear. Sinkholes, I said."
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Sixty, Fifty-Nine, Fifty-Eight – Fractured
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February 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Love this piece by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social “I should have told you that I can’t look at stars because their distance is measured in years, that I don’t acknowledge birthdays, that there wouldn’t be a second date because two points make a timeline.”
Reposted by Katie Robinson
New OPEN Finalist by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social "On our first date, our only date, I lied to you when you asked me about my biggest fear. Sinkholes, I said."
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Sixty, Fifty-Nine, Fifty-Eight – Fractured
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February 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
New OPEN Finalist by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social "On our first date, our only date, I lied to you when you asked me about my biggest fear. Sinkholes, I said."
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Reposted by Katie Robinson
February 11, 2025 at 4:26 AM