Katie Lee Ellison
@katieleeellison.bsky.social
Writer. 🌈 Jewish. 📝 Queer. ✡️
🖤 Founder @nonfictionfornoreason (Insta)🖤
📚🎙️Interviews @thestrangerseattle
🖤 Founder @nonfictionfornoreason (Insta)🖤
📚🎙️Interviews @thestrangerseattle
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Today is the pub day for TERRY DACTYL!!! Watch out, world...🎉🎉🎉🎉 A huge thank-you to @katieleeellison.bsky.social for a *beautiful* conversation in @thestranger.com, what a great way to welcome this book into the world... Get ready for trouble...💚💜💚💜💚💜💚
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s Newest Novel Traces Queer Survival From the AIDS Crisis to 2020 Seattle
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore takes long and meandering walks through Capitol Hill most days. From the height of summer to the depths of winter, if the sun is out, she’s soaking in it. On these walks du...
www.thestranger.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Today is the pub day for TERRY DACTYL!!! Watch out, world...🎉🎉🎉🎉 A huge thank-you to @katieleeellison.bsky.social for a *beautiful* conversation in @thestranger.com, what a great way to welcome this book into the world... Get ready for trouble...💚💜💚💜💚💜💚
Honey Don't was great.
August 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Honey Don't was great.
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Nisi Shawl is one of my favorite writers, a queer elder & a BIPOC icon. I hate that the state of publishing is such that the book of their dreams would struggle to find a home, but I love that we as a community can come together to make it happen!! Give/boost as you're able? 🙏
gofund.me/3a52097a
gofund.me/3a52097a
Donate to Help Nisi Shawl write the book of her dream!, organized by Eileen Gunn
Nisi Shawl, a wise and wonderful writer of science fiction and fantasy, had a… Eileen Gunn needs your support for Help Nisi Shawl write the book of her dream!
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August 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Nisi Shawl is one of my favorite writers, a queer elder & a BIPOC icon. I hate that the state of publishing is such that the book of their dreams would struggle to find a home, but I love that we as a community can come together to make it happen!! Give/boost as you're able? 🙏
gofund.me/3a52097a
gofund.me/3a52097a
Latest @thestranger.com with Chloe Caldwell about TRYING out of @graywolfpress.bsky.social. I did ask about the mention of the beauty brand Ilia in the book, yes. www.thestranger.com/books/2025/0...
Chloé Caldwell Refuses Tidy Endings in 'Trying'
Trying is out August 5 on Graywolf Press.
www.thestranger.com
August 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Latest @thestranger.com with Chloe Caldwell about TRYING out of @graywolfpress.bsky.social. I did ask about the mention of the beauty brand Ilia in the book, yes. www.thestranger.com/books/2025/0...
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Thanks for including Mother of Methadone on Bloomberg's top reads for July! It comes out tomorrow, wherever you buy books 🧡 @bloomberg.com @beaconpress.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The Best Movies, TV, Music, Books, Theater and Art Arriving in July
We’re about to hit peak summer, which means long days to dig into a great book or two (helpfully provided below), prestigious European festivals you can dip into on your travels, and some fantastic TV...
www.bloomberg.com
July 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Thanks for including Mother of Methadone on Bloomberg's top reads for July! It comes out tomorrow, wherever you buy books 🧡 @bloomberg.com @beaconpress.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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I wanna see tears people!!! (In the best way). Go give $5 if you can.
Repost if you can’t , or if you can!
Repost if you can’t , or if you can!
July 12, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I wanna see tears people!!! (In the best way). Go give $5 if you can.
Repost if you can’t , or if you can!
Repost if you can’t , or if you can!
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I need everyone to see this. And for my friends outside the United States, please see how people here are standing up every day against this. We are fighting.
Now ICE is breaking into hospitals to kidnap patients and assault staff
July 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I need everyone to see this. And for my friends outside the United States, please see how people here are standing up every day against this. We are fighting.
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Lawrence Burney is the friend who is always turning you on to the best music, artists, and books before anyone else. He's put months worth of cool shit into these pages.
Sample the riches on offer in this interview with @katieleeellison.bsky.social about NO SENSE IN WISHING, then try and not buy it
Sample the riches on offer in this interview with @katieleeellison.bsky.social about NO SENSE IN WISHING, then try and not buy it
Lawrence Burney Shines a Light on Us All Through His Debut Essay Collection, 'No Sense in Wishing'
With his collection of new essays, culture critic Lawrence Burney holds his own among living legends like Hanif Abdurraqib and Kiese Laymon.
www.thestranger.com
July 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Lawrence Burney is the friend who is always turning you on to the best music, artists, and books before anyone else. He's put months worth of cool shit into these pages.
Sample the riches on offer in this interview with @katieleeellison.bsky.social about NO SENSE IN WISHING, then try and not buy it
Sample the riches on offer in this interview with @katieleeellison.bsky.social about NO SENSE IN WISHING, then try and not buy it
The latest interview, this time with Lawrence Burney about his new essay collection, NO SENSE IN WISHING, is live @thestranger.com. A cut not in the final: "It would be difficult for me to come out of the African tradition and lineage..." 1/3 www.thestranger.com/books/2025/0...
Lawrence Burney Shines a Light on Us All Through His Debut Essay Collection, 'No Sense in Wishing'
With his collection of new essays, culture critic Lawrence Burney holds his own among living legends like Hanif Abdurraqib and Kiese Laymon.
www.thestranger.com
July 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The latest interview, this time with Lawrence Burney about his new essay collection, NO SENSE IN WISHING, is live @thestranger.com. A cut not in the final: "It would be difficult for me to come out of the African tradition and lineage..." 1/3 www.thestranger.com/books/2025/0...
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You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳
July 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳
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Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them!
A Thread.
A Thread.
July 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them!
A Thread.
A Thread.
The news is very very very bad today.
June 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The news is very very very bad today.
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This is great campaign messaging. No wonder the establishment is so shook.
On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park.
New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.
New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.
June 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is great campaign messaging. No wonder the establishment is so shook.
And here's a round up of every interview I've done with @thestranger.com so far, including Daniel Tam-Claiborne, Melissa Febos, Vivian Blaxell, Lidia Yuknavitch, Freda Epum, and more 💕, as well as some personal updates. open.substack.com/pub/katielee...
My friend April said
I'm not publicizing my Stranger interviews enough.
open.substack.com
June 23, 2025 at 3:46 AM
And here's a round up of every interview I've done with @thestranger.com so far, including Daniel Tam-Claiborne, Melissa Febos, Vivian Blaxell, Lidia Yuknavitch, Freda Epum, and more 💕, as well as some personal updates. open.substack.com/pub/katielee...
I should share these here too, yes. @thestranger.com www.thestranger.com/books/2025/0...
Melissa Febos’s Books Reliably Bring Me to my Knees at Least Once
I suppose I’m in the middle of a kind of midlife crisis, both parents dead, on the brink of what I believe will be marriage, fairly new to my own queerness, working a variety of wonderful and weird jo...
www.thestranger.com
June 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I should share these here too, yes. @thestranger.com www.thestranger.com/books/2025/0...
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We're pleased to announce that the inimitable @katieleeellison.bsky.social is joining our team as a contributing editor! Katie is an amazing writer herself and runs the fab Nonfiction for No Reason reading series. Here's an essay she published with us a few years back: mosslit.com/katie-lee-el...
May 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
We're pleased to announce that the inimitable @katieleeellison.bsky.social is joining our team as a contributing editor! Katie is an amazing writer herself and runs the fab Nonfiction for No Reason reading series. Here's an essay she published with us a few years back: mosslit.com/katie-lee-el...
Working a 9-5 is so lonely.
June 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Working a 9-5 is so lonely.
"A straight man's greatest fear is being understood." - Cole Escola 🙏
May 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"A straight man's greatest fear is being understood." - Cole Escola 🙏
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For federal workers who have been laid off:
Slate is offering free access to @slate.com Plus for federal workers who have been laid off. Slate has work advice columns (including from me), financial advice columns, and great news and legal coverage of this sociopathic administration. slate.com/fed-plus <7/n>
If you’re a federal employee—current or recently laid off—Slate Plus is free for six months.
Thousands of federal employees are facing job cuts—or working under growing uncertainty. Slate is offering them six months of Slate Plus for free.
slate.com
April 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
For federal workers who have been laid off:
When I heard myself make that lady clip clop walking down the street.
When did you know you were an adult fr*?
For me, it was when I started loving sourdough bread.
*Fun answers only, please.
For me, it was when I started loving sourdough bread.
*Fun answers only, please.
April 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When I heard myself make that lady clip clop walking down the street.
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Is that book “genius” or is it just dense and bitchy?
April 2, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Is that book “genius” or is it just dense and bitchy?
Thank you @littlepuss.net for bringing me to @vivianblaxell.bsky.social. New interview @thestranger.com just in time for her release of WORTHY OF THE EVENT. www.thestranger.com/books/2025/0...
Vivian Blaxell Worries She'll Disappoint You
On page 230 of her new book, Worthy of the Event, Vivian Blaxell writes, “steer clear of Suicides.” To that I say, whoopsie daisy! My life has been rife with ’em. Still, this book gripped me and stole...
www.thestranger.com
April 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Thank you @littlepuss.net for bringing me to @vivianblaxell.bsky.social. New interview @thestranger.com just in time for her release of WORTHY OF THE EVENT. www.thestranger.com/books/2025/0...
Recently finished @melissabroder.bsky.social's Death Valley so all I sing all-day long is Sh-Boom. Anyone else?
March 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Recently finished @melissabroder.bsky.social's Death Valley so all I sing all-day long is Sh-Boom. Anyone else?
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Editing jobs at @salonnewsroom.bsky.social!
Hey there. We're hiring for several new full-time, remote, US-based editorial roles at @salonnewsroom.bsky.social — writers on the culture and science/health desks, an opinion editor, and an audience producer.
I'll make a little thread, but here's the main link: www.salon.com/about/hiring
I'll make a little thread, but here's the main link: www.salon.com/about/hiring
Jobs | Salon.com
Award-winning news and culture, features breaking news, in-depth reporting and criticism on politics, science, food and entertainment.
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March 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Editing jobs at @salonnewsroom.bsky.social!