Katerina Ivanov Prado’s multi-genre writing has been published in Narrative, Brevity, Catapult, The Rumpus, Joyland, Passages North, and others. She has won The Masters Review Emerging Writers Award, the Narrative Story Contest, the John Weston Award for Fiction, the AWP Intro Journals Award, and has received fellowship support from VCCA, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and Reese’s Book Club. She obtained her MFA at University of Arizona and is a Ph.D. candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston as a Inprint Mary Gibbs and Jesse H. Jones fellow.

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Praise Kink

By KATERINA IVANOV PRADO

I inherited / their desire, still in its
shrink wrap. I was / so lucky.