Author Archive: Kait Heacock

How to Write YA When You Don’t Read YA

I’ve spent most of my writing life treading through the muck of dirty realism—the kind of stories popularized by Raymond Carver that focus on crumbling marriages, disaffected children, and a fair amount of alcohol abuse. My short stories are slow, introspective, and often do not contain an easy resolution—you know, just what the youths like […]