Kristen Tsetsi has been an adjunct English professor, an instructor of expository-, play-, and screenwriting, a town news reporter, columnist, cab driver, grocery bagger, liquor store and video store clerk, job coach, writing tutor, dog walker, worst assistant ever, and editor of the literary journal American Fiction (New Rivers Press). She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Minnesota State University Moorhead.
The post-Roe v. Wade The Age of the Child is her latest novel. Called “provocative” by The Baby Matrix author Laura Carroll and “scathing social commentary” by a Goodreads reviewer, The Age of the Child was the focus of an episode of NPR’s “The Colin McEnroe Show.”
Her first novel, Pretty Much True (originally Homefront), was included in Saint Joseph’s University professor Dr. Owen W. Gilman, Jr.’s “American War Literature and Film: Vietnam to Now” course curriculum and is one of the contemporary works studied in Gilman’s The Hell of War Comes Home.
Kristen’s second novel, The Year of Dan Palace (originally published under the pen name Chris Jane), has been called “stunningly good” by Indie Bookworm and “impossible to put down” by Pop Culture Zoo.
Her short fiction has won the Storyglossia Fiction Prize and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Kristen contributes regularly to JaneFriedman.com, primarily a series of interviews with writers and others in the publishing industry. Find her also on Medium and Substack.
Novel · Dystopian Fiction
A repeal of Roe v. Wade has unanticipated consequences that take a surprising turn from one generation to the next.
“Kris Tsetsi’s The Age of the Child illuminates the hypocrisies of our time without flinching. It’s good stuff. Read it.” — Alan Davis, Fulbright recipient
Novel · Literary Fiction
Originally Homefront, an unflinching portrait of military separation and the agony of those left behind.
“Tsetsi’s talents shine throughout the novel, and she reveals herself to be the rare sort of writer who can satisfy both emotionally and intellectually.” — Small Press Reviews
Novel · Literary Fiction
From the powerful emotion of a break-up’s opening pages to a completely unexpected ending—a stunning, distinctive narrative voice.
“Honest, original, and impossible to put down. Kristen Tsetsi is a 21st Century Bukowski.” — Joseph Dilworth Jr., Pop Culture Zoo
