Kendra Fortmeyer

I’ve been meaning to write a real update for a while, so here’s a quick(ish) roundup of what I’ve been up to since 2019—new work on the page, plus a couple of delightful moments where my writing escaped the page entirely.

On the page (2019–2021)

• “No Matter” (Lightspeed, Aug 2019): a story about time and choice and the ways we keep trying, even when we already know the ending.
  Read it: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/no-matter/

• “Supergiant” (Paper Darts, Nov 2019): family history, strange relics, and the gravitational pull of what we inherit.
  Read it: https://www.paperdarts.org/literary-magazine/2019/11/3/supergiant

• “Waking Up to the Perfect Body” (Gay Mag, Nov 2019): a personal essay about bodies, America, and the stories we’re taught to tell ourselves.
  Read it: https://gay.medium.com/waking-up-to-the-perfect-body-507bad2ad6a

• “Love Is Feudal” (HAD, Sep 2021): yes, it’s called that. (Sometimes a title is a dare.)
  Read it: https://www.havehashad.com/hadposts/i-lost-a-bet-and-now-this-story-is-called-love-is-feudal

Off the page (2023–2025)

• Selected Shorts at Symphony Space (Jan 25, 2023): I got to be part of a night curated by Brooke Gladstone, alongside Mary Gordon, Meron Hadero, and David Michael Kaplan.
  Event page: https://www.symphonyspace.org/events/selected-shorts-the-stories-we-tell-ourselves-with-brooke-gladstone

• Selected Shorts podcast (July 2025): my One Story piece “Things I Know To Be True” was read by Calvin Leon Smith.
  Listen: https://soundcloud.com/selectedshorts/ss-2024-25-46_pcastfinal

If you want the tidy version—a single page with links to my stories—there’s one here: /fiction/.