Ficton and poetry
Caressa writes about the selves we cannot fully know, the memories we inherit and revise, and the things we want from one another.
a short story
When a farmer wakes in the middle of the night to help birth a calf, she is confronted with uncertainty.
The Calf
Kate Cruel
a short story
Hazel and her partner, Kate, defend themselves by the light of their campfire.
Poetry
the night pays no mind
And here you are
The headlights switched off
Delaying
Knowing the stretch before you yawns into the night
roast
as it climbs and pricks your cheeks the undulation beneath the skin rushes to the surfacein the telltale reddening that accompanies...
swell
place your hand just here and feel the slam against my ribcage and in the hollow of my center as I reach and pull and come back with wisps between my fistsPublications
Poetry
“fill it out or pack it in; is there a form in the formless,” June Edition, Underground Press, Pittsburg, PA, USA. June 2026.
“roast” Issue 2, Bacchanalia Literary Magazine, July 2026.
“Swell,” Overgrowth Press, Virtual, July 2025.
“Roots,” Oddities, Art of Nothing Press, Spring 2025
“The Night Pays No Mind.” Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association: Halloween Reading Collection. 2024
The Dark Poets Edition II. Virtual. 2024
Short Fiction
“See What Tomorrow Brings,” Anti-Heroin Chic. Virtual, May 2026.
“Kate Cruel.” The Plentitudes. Third place in flash fiction. 2025.
“The Calf.” The Plentitudes. Virtual, 2024
Essays and Articles
“Who’s Afraid of the Dark? On the Work of Katie Baker,” Rawhead Journal. 2026.
Prizes and Awards
“Kate Cruel.” The Plentitudes. Third place in flash fiction. 2025.
