I’m a storyteller at heart, an author whose fiction has been featured in America’s Future, Best Microfiction 2023, Cease, Cows, Ghost Parachute, Fractured Lit, The Molotov Cocktail, and more. Also an essayist, ELJ Editions published my first microchapbook, Memory’s Ebb (June 2025), a collection of creative nonfiction about caregiving for my mother. I also edited One Wild Ride, a limited-run online literary journal with stories about caring for our aging parents and those who raised us. I received my MFA from Randolph College, where I studied satire and started a humorous novel-in-progress.
Over more than two decades, I’ve been a journalist with the PBS NewsHour, Colorado Public Radio, and Aspen Public Radio, as well as a nonprofit communications leader.
My novel is inspired by Ottessa Moshfegh, R. F. Kuang, Danzy Senna, and my Randolph mentors Maurice Carlos Ruffin and John Vercher. I also write short fiction in the tradition of contemporary speculative authors, like Mary South, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Clare Beams, and another Randolph mentor Anjali Sachdeva. My creative nonfiction and One Wild Ride, are influenced by authors and advocates like Atul Gawande, essayists like Elissa Altman, and graphic artists like Roz Chast. I also am an avid consumer of detective stories, space opera, as well as news, ideas, and open discourse.
Read & subscribe to Blue Violet, my notes about contradictions and identity.
Featured Publications
Fiction & Creative Nonfiction
Hardy Holds Court at the Corner Store, Cease, Cows, September 2022, Best Microfiction 2023
Fire in the Teak Fields, Ghost Parachute, February 2023
Dementia’s Orphans, Superstition Review, January 2023 (creative nonfiction & interview)
The Borrowers, Top 10 in The Molotov Cocktail’s Folked Up Flash Contest, March 2022; Runner Up, WOW Flash Fiction Contest Fall 2022
Essays
The Ghosts of Christmas, The Dispatch, December 2025
Tattoos are Virtuous, Wisdom of Crowds, August 2025
Another Long, Hot Summer, Wisdom of Crowds, August 2024
Parenting *Is* the End of the World, Wisdom of Crowds, April 2024
Book Reviews
Review & Interview: Sue Mell’s Giving Care, Heavy Feather Review, December 2022
An Ailing Parent and Unabashed Honesty: A Review of Mothercare: Love, Death, and Ambivalence, Literary Mama, November 2022
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As one of the 1/4 of adults in their 40’s or 50’s caring for an aging parent, I have found strength and hope in stories about the ups and downs of caregiving. I edited a limited-run online journal for stories on the topic, called One Wild Ride.
Contact
Questions? E-mail Kristina at kristina dot tabor at gmail dot com.
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