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Katie Rizzo

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Katie Rizzo is a fiction writer whose short stories have appeared in literary journals including Prosetrics,The Literary Magazine (January 2026), as well as in anthologies such as the HG Wells Short Story Competition (2023). She earned juried placements at the Aspen Words Conference in 2023 and 2025.

Trained in biology and psychology, Rizzo earned a master’s degree from Yale University and completed MSII at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She taught at her local public high school for over fifteen years and lives in Arizona with her husband and their two dogs.

A gentle reminder to me every morning

Every morning I need a reminder. 

Katie, 

Yep. It’s still true. Sorry. 

Every day you try to make your world into the one it was before. It isn’t ever gonna be. 

And then by noon you remember you can only control one thing - you.  But then you try to be the old you. And you can stop that now; she’s gone.

And all the thinking and mulling it over won’t change a thing. Nicholas isn’t coming back no matter

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