The Lives of Writers

Francesca Kritikos

Episode Summary

Michael talks with Francesca Kritikos about refinding an identity in the daily grind, her forthcoming collection Exercise in Desire, the influence of pop music, punctuation, short vs. long poems, writing about the body, and more.

Episode Notes

Michael talks with Francesca Kritikos about refinding an identity in the daily grind, her forthcoming collection Exercise in Desire, the influence of pop music, punctuation, short vs. long poems, writing about the body, and more.

Francesca Kritikos is a Greek-American writer and editor based in Chicago. She is the author of the poetry collection Exercise in Desire (forthcoming from Vegetarian Alcoholic Press) and the chapbooks It Felt Like Worship (Sad Spell Press, 2017) and Animals Don't Go to Hell (Bottlecap Press, 2021). You can find links to her various works on Instagram: @fmkrit.

Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.