New fiction from CCLA author Taisia Kitaiskaia

Congratulations to CCLA author Taisia Kitaiskaia, who has had not one but two new stories published in some of our favorite literary journals within the past couple of weeks. The first story, “Midnight Dough,” appears in the most recent edition of the Los Angeles Review of Books, themed around the domestic.

Another surreal and funny story titled “Tough Nickels” appears in the newest A Public Space; details about that issue and a link to order your own copy can be found here.

Taisia Kitaiskaia (Tai-yee-see-yuh Kit-ai-sky-uh) is a Russian-American poet and writer. She is the author of THE NIGHTGOWN AND OTHER POEMS (Deep Vellum, 2020); LITERARY WITCHES (Hachette/Seal, 2017), a collaboration with artist Katy Horan celebrating magical women writers and an NPR Best Book of 2017; a divination deck, THE LITERARY WITCHES ORACLE (Clarkson Potter, 2019); and two books of experimental advice from a witch of Slavic folklore, ASK BABA YAGA: OTHERWORLDLY ADVICE FOR EVERYDAY TROUBLES (Andrews McMeel, 2017) and its follow-up, POETIC REMEDIES FOR TROUBLED TIMES FROM ASK BABA YAGA (Andrews McMeel, 2020). She has received fellowships from Yaddo and the James A. Michener Center for Writers (MFA in Poetry, 2015), and her work has been published in journals such as A Public Space, Gulf Coast, Los Angeles Review of Books, StoryQuarterly, Fence, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Pleiades, and Guernica.

Find more information about Taisia and her work at her website.