I used to tell people that my first kiss was on a December night, under a pine tree, when a boy I sort-of liked kissed me after a dance recital; but actually my first kiss was older, and with a woman. In this memory,...
Softening
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Ruth Joffre
Ruth Joffre is the author of the story collection Night Beast, which was longlisted for The Story Prize. Her work has been shortlisted for the Creative Capital Awards and has been supported by residencies at The Arctic Circle, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Lighthouse Works, and the Whiteley Center. Her fiction and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in more than 50 publications, including Lightspeed, Reckoning, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, Nightmare, Wigleaf, and the anthologies We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2022 and 2022 Best of Utopian Speculative Fiction. Her interview series with the authors, editors, and curators of craft books and resources is freely available in Catapult’s Don’t Write Alone and the Kenyon Review blog.