
Kristen M. Ploetz
Cognoscenti contributor
Kristen M. Ploetz is a writer whose work has been published (or is forthcoming) in Atlas & Alice, Hypertext Magazine, Swarm Literary Journal, The Hopper, Gravel, Motherlode and The Humanist, among others. She is working on a collection of short stories.
Recently published

Books Will Be Books: Enough With Gendered Children’s Lit
Let's do away with all of this binary classification and marketing, writes Kristen M. Ploetz. Let kids decide what they like, and what they don’t.

Avoiding Books, Even Fiction, About Tragedies I Fear
Kristen M. Ploetz's daughter was born, and some books -- Joan Didion's "Blue Nights" -- touched too close to home.

About A Book: Loving It, Loaning It, Longing To Get It Back
Have you ever loaned a book to someone and never gotten it back, asks Kristen M. Ploetz. And it really bothers you?