KIT EGINTON

Writing/editing/left politics in NYC. Everything here, highlights at my linktree.

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WRITING

• STRANGE HORIZONS reviews
  • Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072, Eman Abdelhadi and M.E. O'Brien
  • Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature: A Commons Poetics, Raphael Kabo
• MIDNIGHT SUN poems
  • "Home Improvements" and "Poem Beginning with a Line from an Interview with Tajik-Russian Pop Star Manizha"
• ONLY POEMS
  • Consent Sonnets
  • Interview
• HYPOCRITE READER
  • The Weight of Breasts that Aren't There (won Honorable Mention from Best American Essays 2021)
  • INTRODUCTION: AN EXEGETIC CHAIN or "Flaws"
  • Interviews and collaborative ethnography
    • My Own Sanity Within That Madness with Lawrence Lemaoana
    • Fruitful (conversations on trans parenthood)
    • TRANS FAT (conversations on transness and body size)
  • A Dull, Distinct Light (on aging and the nursing home form)
  • On Wanting Magic to be Real (on transfeminity and fantasy literature)
  • A New Year's Postscript
• MICHIGAN QUARTERLY REVIEW: MIXTAPE
  • Theodolite - they call this an essay but I'd call it a poem
• THE LICKETY-SPLIT
  • [I asked my roommate to play me]
  • [I make a boiled egg.]

TRANSLATIONS

• CALVERT JOURNAL
  • Translation of Simonova
• F-Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry - Simonova and Denisova
  • LARB review
• You Can't Make Me Open My Eyes book-length literary hoax w/ Ekaterina Simonova. "By" Anna Arnot. Published in Russia, banned under homosexual propaganda laws.

EDITING

I edited HYPOCRITE READER for 5 years. With virtually no financial resources we published some of the best and strangest prose on the Internet. I'm particularly proud of:

• Ma by Natalia Meshchaninova - later selected for an anthology of the best Russian short stories of the last 300 years
• Estranged Children of Storybook Houses by Julian K. Jarboe - later collected in his first book
• I'll Kiss Your Other Cheek photo essay by Myagmarsuren Purev-Ochir
• An Aviary of Queer Social Reproduction by Jules Joanne Gleeson
• Sores of the Realm by Marybeth Ruether-Wu on contagion in the medieval political imagination - BAE 2020 hon ment.
• Material Mindfulness by Jamilah ??
• Are You There, Follicle
• Beirut's Unheard Omens by Abraham Younes
• Antisocial Dentistry by Brad Bolman
• Bridge Tooth by Gabi Shiner
• On Returning Things to their Proper Places by Jamilah ??
• Six Lions by Yasmine Musa
• Good Morning, Beautiful World by Tamara Masri
• I'm Dying Here, Tell the Prime Minister
• "A Nomad's Worry" and "Time Passes" by Ojo Taiye
• Commodity Theater by Katy Burnett