Kathryn DeZur
@kdezur.bsky.social
Creative nonfiction appearing in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, Nassau Review, and Still-Points Quarterly; developmental and copy editing of psychology/self-help and memoir. Mornings include meditation and a latte, but not in that order.
November 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The Secret Garden. Despite its problematic colonialism, the story of helping things grow as healing touches my heart every time. #Bookvember #BookSky #Books
Welcome to #Bookvember Day 2!
Follow the directions on the prompt card and share your love of the written word with others.
#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
Follow the directions on the prompt card and share your love of the written word with others.
#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
November 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The Secret Garden. Despite its problematic colonialism, the story of helping things grow as healing touches my heart every time. #Bookvember #BookSky #Books
I’m super excited that my book, Objects of Affection, about the identity we build through our attachments to places and things, is open for preorders.
To preorder a copy—one of the best ways to support emerging authors (me, I’m the emerging author)—head to www.susqupress.com/books/object....
To preorder a copy—one of the best ways to support emerging authors (me, I’m the emerging author)—head to www.susqupress.com/books/object....
Objects of Affection — Susquehanna University Press
A memoir in essays that explores what objects can tell us about our history, our culture, and the people around us. Kathryn DeZur illuminates how our possessions situate us on a continuum between the ...
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November 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I’m super excited that my book, Objects of Affection, about the identity we build through our attachments to places and things, is open for preorders.
To preorder a copy—one of the best ways to support emerging authors (me, I’m the emerging author)—head to www.susqupress.com/books/object....
To preorder a copy—one of the best ways to support emerging authors (me, I’m the emerging author)—head to www.susqupress.com/books/object....
On this morning’s walk, we passed by a preschool where a cute young boy waved at us. I waved back. As we continued on, I heard him explaining to someone who probably asked who I was that “it’s an old lady.” Ahhhhhhhahahaha.
October 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
On this morning’s walk, we passed by a preschool where a cute young boy waved at us. I waved back. As we continued on, I heard him explaining to someone who probably asked who I was that “it’s an old lady.” Ahhhhhhhahahaha.
#inside a NYC hotel room #BlueSkyArtShow
October 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
#inside a NYC hotel room #BlueSkyArtShow
Small town, big heart
October 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Small town, big heart
It's been a couple of weeks, but here is my latest Substack on the in-between as uncomfortable, as necessary, and as wisdom.
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kathryndezur.substack.com/p/the-in-bet...
The In-Between
I’m feeling quite liminal (one of a literary scholar’s favorite words) these days.
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October 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
It's been a couple of weeks, but here is my latest Substack on the in-between as uncomfortable, as necessary, and as wisdom.
kathryndezur.substack.com/p/the-in-bet...
kathryndezur.substack.com/p/the-in-bet...
September 27, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Meditations on time and energy
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Crip Time and the Body Electric
For the past few days, I’ve had the first four lines of a Walt Whitman poem circulating through my brain:I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will n...
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September 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Meditations on time and energy
kathryndezur.substack.com/p/crip-time-...
kathryndezur.substack.com/p/crip-time-...
Show me an image on your phone that has your energy but is not a selfie
September 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Show me an image on your phone that has your energy but is not a selfie
August 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Reposted by Kathryn DeZur
There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation. Which is why it makes my head explode when people surrender in advance verbally, which they do all the time about politics.
On Not Surrendering in Advance, or During, or At Any Point Thereafter
There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context. Words have power. They not ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation. Which is why it makes my head explode when people surrender in advance verbally, which they do all the time about politics.
So impossibly excited! My memoir in essays, OBJECTS OF AFFECTION, will be published in Spring 2026 by @susqupress.bsky.social. YAY! #Booksky
August 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
So impossibly excited! My memoir in essays, OBJECTS OF AFFECTION, will be published in Spring 2026 by @susqupress.bsky.social. YAY! #Booksky
Life is in the ordinary.
kathryndezur.substack.com/p/the-ordinary
kathryndezur.substack.com/p/the-ordinary
The Ordinary
No, not the skincare brand
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August 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Life is in the ordinary.
kathryndezur.substack.com/p/the-ordinary
kathryndezur.substack.com/p/the-ordinary
Reposted by Kathryn DeZur
An owl with some attitude.
August 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
An owl with some attitude.
The Messy Middle: Preparing for the Art by the Lake Show happening tomorrow (8/9) from 10 am to 5 pm at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, NY.
#photography #ArtbytheLake #artshow
#photography #ArtbytheLake #artshow
August 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM
The Messy Middle: Preparing for the Art by the Lake Show happening tomorrow (8/9) from 10 am to 5 pm at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, NY.
#photography #ArtbytheLake #artshow
#photography #ArtbytheLake #artshow
July 27, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Redesigned my website to include a photography portfolio (www.kathryndezur.com) and wrote about it as part of owning my identity as an artist.
kathryndezur.substack.com/p/redesign
kathryndezur.substack.com/p/redesign
Redesign
I spent much of this week redesigning my website (https://www.kathryndezur.com if you’d care to look).
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July 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Redesigned my website to include a photography portfolio (www.kathryndezur.com) and wrote about it as part of owning my identity as an artist.
kathryndezur.substack.com/p/redesign
kathryndezur.substack.com/p/redesign
If you happen to be in Cooperstown, NY on August 9th, drop by Art by the Lake at the Fenimore Art Museum to say hi. My pic is on the upper right (woman standing with crow at a frozen lake). #PhotographySky #PhotographersUnited #Photography #ArtFair #CooperstownNY
June 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
If you happen to be in Cooperstown, NY on August 9th, drop by Art by the Lake at the Fenimore Art Museum to say hi. My pic is on the upper right (woman standing with crow at a frozen lake). #PhotographySky #PhotographersUnited #Photography #ArtFair #CooperstownNY
Last time this bloomed, it was 2022. Finally made a comeback after being savaged by deer. Sometimes things take time.
#bloomscrolling #rose #persistence
#bloomscrolling #rose #persistence
June 17, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Last time this bloomed, it was 2022. Finally made a comeback after being savaged by deer. Sometimes things take time.
#bloomscrolling #rose #persistence
#bloomscrolling #rose #persistence
I went antiques shopping—separately—with Diane Keaton in LA in the late 1990s.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I went antiques shopping—separately—with Diane Keaton in LA in the late 1990s.
Sometimes we get in our own way. Sometimes we're implicitly taught to do so.
kathryndezur.substack.com/p/overcoming...
Image: Letter from Frances Devereux, Countess of Essex, on behalf of John Daniell, 1599. National Archives, London.
#selfdoubt #archive #substack #FindingFrances #academicsky
kathryndezur.substack.com/p/overcoming...
Image: Letter from Frances Devereux, Countess of Essex, on behalf of John Daniell, 1599. National Archives, London.
#selfdoubt #archive #substack #FindingFrances #academicsky
![A white sheet of paper with words written in brown ink [spelling modernized]: "your very loving friend, Fra. Essex"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:py4viq63nqags2do5o6vej4b/bafkreibyf477xm5vb5dywbdt4r23bnlou3lh4lnrsel6s5pdxxazm3p4zm@jpeg)
June 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Sometimes we get in our own way. Sometimes we're implicitly taught to do so.
kathryndezur.substack.com/p/overcoming...
Image: Letter from Frances Devereux, Countess of Essex, on behalf of John Daniell, 1599. National Archives, London.
#selfdoubt #archive #substack #FindingFrances #academicsky
kathryndezur.substack.com/p/overcoming...
Image: Letter from Frances Devereux, Countess of Essex, on behalf of John Daniell, 1599. National Archives, London.
#selfdoubt #archive #substack #FindingFrances #academicsky
This is an older essay (2022) but is still disturbingly relevant. kathryndezur.substack.com/p/open-lette...
#chronicpain #disability #medicalgaslighting
#chronicpain #disability #medicalgaslighting
Open Letter to the Neurologist Who Said “I Don’t Know Why You’re Here” Three Times During Our Appointment
I wrote this essay in 2022.
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June 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This is an older essay (2022) but is still disturbingly relevant. kathryndezur.substack.com/p/open-lette...
#chronicpain #disability #medicalgaslighting
#chronicpain #disability #medicalgaslighting
Anyone else get so tired they kind of lose their sense of connection to their body and then physically way overdo it without realizing and then when they realize they’ve overdone it say, “I’m almost done with this taxing physical task. F*ck it. I’ll push through to the end”? Yeah, same.
June 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Anyone else get so tired they kind of lose their sense of connection to their body and then physically way overdo it without realizing and then when they realize they’ve overdone it say, “I’m almost done with this taxing physical task. F*ck it. I’ll push through to the end”? Yeah, same.