Brittany Micka-Foos is a writer living in the Pacific Northwest. She is the author of the short story collection It’s No Fun Anymore (Apprentice House, 2025) and the poetry chapbook a litany of words as fragile as window glass (Bottlecap Press, 2024).
Her poems, essays, and short stories appear in a variety of publications, including Ninth Letter, Witness, CALYX Journal, the Non-Binary Review, Hobart, Identity Theory, Literary Mama, Briar Cliff Review, Typehouse Magazine, Variant Literature, and elsewhere.
A former victim’s rights lawyer in Washington, DC, Brittany turned to writing after the birth of her first child.
For more about Brittany, visit her website, and follow her on Instagram and Bluesky.
In this conversation, we discussed using the short story genre to explore various aspects of modern womanhood.
