In her debut, Quatmann explores twin tragedies with evocative language, inviting readers into an intimate journey of grief.






Yoke

Caiti Quatmann (she/they) is a disabled and queer writer. She is the author of Yoke (MyrtleHaus 2024) and Editor-in-Chief for HNDL Mag. Her work is forthcoming or appeared in Rattle, North Dakota Quarterly, the Bitchin’ Kitsch, Neologism Poetry Journal, Little Old Lady Comedy, and others. Find her online @CaitiTalks.

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Selected as the Editor’s Choice for Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge, December 2024,

The Boardroom at the Edge of the Field

"Listen, Bernard, if you would allow me moment of your time. I beg you, do not swipe left on my manuscript like it's outdated meme! This is not just any tale; it is such reflection of art—real art, you see—though perhaps not what you might expect..."

Vladimir Nabokov Pitches Lolita to An Agent

Breastfeeding in Brooklyn

We Regret to Inform You That Your Home Is Toast (And We Won’t Be Paying to Rebuild It) — Little Old Lady 

All the Lives I’ll Never Live

What if I Had Moved to New York?

In Another Life Where We Were Together

If I’d Never Left Home

Child-Free

I Had a Dream

What if I Had Joined the Peace Corps Instead?

The Lost Art of Phone Calls

How to Stay

Already Gone

We Regret to Inform You That Your Home Is Toast (And We Won’t Be Paying to Rebuild It)

Published Nov. 15, 2024, Issue 6
Nominated for pushcart prize

Excerpt:
"It’s warming, and all my ice is so thin
that it’s impossible to shield the past
from my inevitable future. Every morning"

Greetings from Glacier National Park

Samfiftyfour Issue X, Sept 2024

"When they fill the five-gallon bucket / with the hose, one-by-one dipping in / their heads..." 


Mississippi

Writing in a Woman's Voice, Oct 28, 2024. 

"Missing You Is Hard to Master” was previously published in Quatmann’s debut chapbook Yoke (MyrtleHaus 2024)

"Unbeknownst to us, you vanished,
absent. Absent from lectures... "

Missing You Is Hard to Master

Publisher Nov. 15, 2024 in Issue 6

Excerpt:
"Write a step by step on
        how you met the love of your life:" 

Caiti Quatmann

Books

Selected work