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Heidi Kasa

she/her/hers | Writer, Editor | United States

Heidi Kasa is the author of Split (Monday Night Press, 2022), and her writing has appeared in Barrelhouse, Ruminate, and The Racket, among others. She won the 2024 Plaza Prose Poetry Prize and the 2023 Poetry Super Highway Poetry Prize. Kasa’s flash fiction collection The Beginners won the 2023 Digging Press Chapbook Contest, and is forthcoming in 2025. Her first poetry collection, The Bullet Takes Forever, is also forthcoming in 2025, from Mouthfeel Press. Find her at www.heidikasa.com.

Books

Selected work

Cover of Medium

Bringing Human Dignity Into Medical Experiences

Medium, 2022

NonfictionEssayPersonal Essay
Cover of Mothers Who Make Mondays

"Heidi Kasa: Expanding in Every Direction"

Mothers Who Make Mondays, 2024

NonfictionEssayInterview
Cover of Ruminate & The Waking

One Day This Book: A Review of Miah Jeffra's The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic!

Ruminate & The Waking, 2022

NonfictionEssayReview
Cover of Monday Night Press

"Will It" and "Running in the Same Place"

Monday Night Press, 2018

PoetryLiterary
Cover of Barrelhouse

Barrelhouse Reviews: A Rupture in the Interiors by Valerie Witte

Barrelhouse, 2024

NonfictionEssayReview
Cover of Poetry Super Highway

"Water Is the Body"

Poetry Super Highway, 2021

PoetryLiterary
Cover of Pisces Publishing

"This Is Poetry"

Pisces Publishing, 2022

PoetryLiterary
Cover of The Passionfruit Review

"Pull-Push"

The Passionfruit Review, 2023

PoetryLiterary
Cover of Quilled Ink Review

"Love Poems Are Changelings"

Quilled Ink Review, 2023

PoetryLiterary
Cover of Poetry Super Highway

"The Bullet Cures"

Poetry Super Highway, 2023

PoetryProse Poetry
Cover of Spires

"Another Night"

Spires, 1999

FictionFlashLiterary
Cover of Meat for Tea:

"Conversation"

Meat for Tea: , 2019

FictionFlashLiterary
Cover of The Racket Journal

"The Last Pioneers"

The Racket Journal, 2021

FictionFlashScience Fiction
Cover of Brain Mill Press, Ab Terra

"Robot You"

Brain Mill Press, Ab Terra, 2021

FictionFlashScience Fiction
Cover of The Raw Art Review

"A Grief That Shatters Oceans"

The Raw Art Review, 2022

FictionFlashLiterary
Cover of Waterwheel Review

"A Small Death"

Waterwheel Review, 2022

FictionFlashLiterary
Cover of Digging Press Journal

"Ghosts Are Hungry"

Digging Press Journal, 2022

FictionFlashLiterary
Cover of Bending Genres

"One Day in Drapes R Us"

Bending Genres, 2024

FictionFlashLiterary
Cover of Murasaki Press

"Mechanical Mommy"

Murasaki Press, 2023

FictionShort StoryScience Fiction