Kristin Collier
@kristincollier.bsky.social
Author of What Debt Demands, forthcoming with Grand Central Publishing (Nov 2025) // organizer// educator
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Really honored by this thoughtful and generous reading of "What Debt Demands." thebaffler.com/latest/the-f...
The Family Loan | Kristen Martin
The American student loan system assumes and reinforces familial financial entanglement.
thebaffler.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Really honored by this thoughtful and generous reading of "What Debt Demands." thebaffler.com/latest/the-f...
Thank you, Sophie!
Crossing the streams slightly to let people here know that @kristincollier.bsky.social's book, WHAT DEBT DEMANDS, is out! I have yelled about student debt pretty frequently, because it's the major factor I see separating my (millennial) peers into haves and have-nots. Link to MPR:
New book explores student loan system through author's story of fraudulent debt
In Collier’s new book, “What Debt Demands,” she explores the student loan system and the ways that debt shapes our lives.
www.mprnews.org
November 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Thank you, Sophie!
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@kristincollier.bsky.social explores the all-encompassing toll of debt and economic precarity in America.
How the Psychological Burden of Debt Impacts Our Physical Health
I learned that my mother had a severe gambling addiction and had borrowed money from many of her family members, maxed out all her credit cards and, then, when all the credit lines had collapsed, s…
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November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
@kristincollier.bsky.social explores the all-encompassing toll of debt and economic precarity in America.
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"We all have the chance to find peace through something more collective."
@jenbowen.bsky.social's interview with @kristincollier.bsky.social on her new book "What Debt Demands” (@grandcentralpub.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/19/w...
@jenbowen.bsky.social's interview with @kristincollier.bsky.social on her new book "What Debt Demands” (@grandcentralpub.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/19/w...
What the Body Gives: A Conversation with Kristin Collier - Chicago Review of Books
Our interview with Kristin Collier about her debut memoir, "What Debt Demands."
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November 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"We all have the chance to find peace through something more collective."
@jenbowen.bsky.social's interview with @kristincollier.bsky.social on her new book "What Debt Demands” (@grandcentralpub.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/19/w...
@jenbowen.bsky.social's interview with @kristincollier.bsky.social on her new book "What Debt Demands” (@grandcentralpub.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/19/w...
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"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
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November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
thank you, UMN. Such a gift to have had 3 years to think about books during the MFA program. 🩵
Happy pub day to MFA alum @kristincollier.bsky.social with memoir What Debt Demands: Family, Betrayal, and Precarity in a Broken System! @grandcentralpub.bsky.social
What Debt Demands
A powerful memoir of a woman plunged into fraudulent debt that explores America’s broken student loan system and illuminates the ways that debt shapes ever...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
thank you, UMN. Such a gift to have had 3 years to think about books during the MFA program. 🩵
thank you @itsalexberg.bsky.social for being such a knowledgeable and generous host!
Hello Monday! Joining guest host @itsalexberg.bsky.social: V Spehar of @underthedesknews.bsky.social, @kristincollier.bsky.social, Author of What Debt Demands + Michelle Eisen of @sbworkersunited.org!
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November 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
thank you @itsalexberg.bsky.social for being such a knowledgeable and generous host!
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Hello Monday! Joining guest host @itsalexberg.bsky.social: V Spehar of @underthedesknews.bsky.social, @kristincollier.bsky.social, Author of What Debt Demands + Michelle Eisen of @sbworkersunited.org!
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November 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Hello Monday! Joining guest host @itsalexberg.bsky.social: V Spehar of @underthedesknews.bsky.social, @kristincollier.bsky.social, Author of What Debt Demands + Michelle Eisen of @sbworkersunited.org!
☎️ 866-997-4748
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☎️ 866-997-4748
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Meet us in the Sisyphus Brewing event space for a launch party with Kristin Collier & Friends on Tuesday, November 18th. Doors at 6 pm and reading at 7 pm. Hear work from fellow authors Michael Kleber-Diggs, Jen Bowen, Sun Yung Shin, and Zeke Caligiuri!
November 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Meet us in the Sisyphus Brewing event space for a launch party with Kristin Collier & Friends on Tuesday, November 18th. Doors at 6 pm and reading at 7 pm. Hear work from fellow authors Michael Kleber-Diggs, Jen Bowen, Sun Yung Shin, and Zeke Caligiuri!
Reposted by Kristin Collier
Next Tues, MFA alum @kristincollier.bsky.social launches her NF debut What Debt Demands: Family, Betrayal, & Precarity in a Broken System--with assists from authors Zeke Caligiuri (current MFA student), @sunyungshin.bsky.social @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social and @jenbowen.bsky.social!
Meet us in the Sisyphus Brewing event space for a launch party with Kristin Collier & Friends on Tuesday, November 18th. Doors at 6 pm and reading at 7 pm. Hear work from fellow authors Michael Kleber-Diggs, Jen Bowen, Sun Yung Shin, and Zeke Caligiuri!
November 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Next Tues, MFA alum @kristincollier.bsky.social launches her NF debut What Debt Demands: Family, Betrayal, & Precarity in a Broken System--with assists from authors Zeke Caligiuri (current MFA student), @sunyungshin.bsky.social @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social and @jenbowen.bsky.social!
Really proud of my friend and colleague. Together, we're at work on project connected to debt and re-entry, and he's pushing my thinking all the time.
Congrats, Andre!
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Congrats, Andre!
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
4 hours and 40 minutes of freedom: A man just out of prison finds meaning during the Twin Cities Marathon
Andre Anderson crossed the finish line for the 26-mile race in front of the Minnesota State Capitol just before 1 p.m.
www.mprnews.org
October 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Really proud of my friend and colleague. Together, we're at work on project connected to debt and re-entry, and he's pushing my thinking all the time.
Congrats, Andre!
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Congrats, Andre!
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
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Just Now: A group former tenants who all owe crushing amounts of rent debt —from $200 to over $50,000—just announced themselves on debt-strike.
They will refuse to pay their unjust debts to Equity Residential, the 5th largest corporate landlord in the United States.
They will refuse to pay their unjust debts to Equity Residential, the 5th largest corporate landlord in the United States.
October 2, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Just Now: A group former tenants who all owe crushing amounts of rent debt —from $200 to over $50,000—just announced themselves on debt-strike.
They will refuse to pay their unjust debts to Equity Residential, the 5th largest corporate landlord in the United States.
They will refuse to pay their unjust debts to Equity Residential, the 5th largest corporate landlord in the United States.
"We retain some power over the terms and norms of our own intellectual life. We ought to stop acting like impotence in some realms means impotence everywhere."
Yes! Yes! Yes! This essay gets at what's been so frustrating about so many of the AI think pieces coming out these days.
Yes! Yes! Yes! This essay gets at what's been so frustrating about so many of the AI think pieces coming out these days.
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"We retain some power over the terms and norms of our own intellectual life. We ought to stop acting like impotence in some realms means impotence everywhere."
Yes! Yes! Yes! This essay gets at what's been so frustrating about so many of the AI think pieces coming out these days.
Yes! Yes! Yes! This essay gets at what's been so frustrating about so many of the AI think pieces coming out these days.