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Francesca Kritikos

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September 13, 1996

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Francesca Kritikos is the founder and editor in chief of the journal and publisher SARKA. She is the author of the poetry collections The season of lilacs is monstrous (Blush Lit, 2025), SWEET BLOODY SALTY CLEAN (Feral Dove, 2023) and Exercise in Desire (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2022). She also wrote the chapbooks In the Bed of Sickness (Pitymilk Press, 2023), Animals Don't Go To Hell (Bottlecap Press, 2021) and It Felt Like Worship (Sad Spell Press, 2017). Her poetry, nonfiction and autofiction have appeared in Hot Pink Mag, ITERANT, Bruiser Mag, Spectra, The London Magazine, The Quarterless Review, Hobart, Blush Lit and elsewhere. She currently lives in Chicago. ...more

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“In an old black car, a girl who feels sick to her stomach wants to throw up every man she’s ever known until a sea surrounds her. That girl wants to walk on top of that sea. Girls want these things.”
Francesca Kritikos, IT FELT LIKE WORSHIP

“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”
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“A true poet does not say 'azure'; a true poet says 'blue.”
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“We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.”
Joan Didion, The White Album

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