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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.

Standing up to Death

Oct/Poem/Ber Challenge

I’m trying to write 

a poem on

third spaces.

Third spaces are defined as 

a place

that isn’t home or work,

that doesn’t cost too much to enter

It’s where you feel a sense

of safety and belonging


You.

You are my 

third space. -Katie Rizzo 

Standing up to Death

My cousin was dying of cancer, and I’d come to say my good-byes. He was in his forties, in hospice, and the world felt very u

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The Trimesters of Grief by Katie Rizzo
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"Katie Rizzo is a writer of great beauty and even greater honesty. Trimesters of Grief chronicles the harrowing journey of a mother trying — imperfectly, because she is human — to love her son with an addiction and to carry on in grief after his death" Read more of this review »
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"Katie Rizzo bravely offers the unvarnished truth of her family's journey through the unimaginable, the death of her eldest son by overdose at age 25. In her own words, "The Trimesters of Grief" was the book Rizzo herself could have most used to find " Read more of this review »
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