Kathleen Harris

Kathleen McKitty Harris is a writer and native New Yorker, now living in northern New Jersey with her husband and two children. Some of her work has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, The Rumpus, McSweeney’s, Full Grown People, and Brain, Child. She has also been named as a Glimmer Train Press short story finalist, and is a 2016 winner of the Woodstock Writers’ Festival Story Slam. She blogs at www.sweetjesilu.com.

The Writing LifeOctober 11, 2016

What We Write About When We’re Not Writing

By Kathleen Harris

When you can’t write, you write lists. To-do lists. Reading lists. Life lists. Lists of things to be repaired or fixed. Packing lists. Shopping lists. You write longhand in tight, tiny letters that you need paper towels, eggs, butter, apples, chicken breasts, and spinach.