#justmeandmyyellowchair
Hello!
Kari Kraakevik is a composer and writer whose prose carries the same architectural precision as her music.
Her debut work of literary autofiction, Boobs, Ballads, and Becoming (working title), is currently in beta reads and editorial development as she begins the querying process. She is also editing a second novel, The Girl Who Walked Through Glass, and developing Real Kids Club, a children’s picture book series inspired by real classroom experiences.
Her writing explores girlhood, identity, endurance, neurodivergence, and embodiment — often structured with the movement and motif of a musical score.
Her essays and creative nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in The Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism, Divergents Magazine, Open Secrets Magazine, Larina’s Lit Lounge, Backsliders Magazine, Chicago Story Press, Wilderness House Literary Review, The Genre Society, and Infocalypse Arts & Literary Magazine.
Boxes
Boxes is a lyrical creative nonfiction essay about movement, neurodivergence, survival, and the quiet ways we build safety inside unstable spaces. Through nearly twenty moves, unpacked boxes, and the collapse of a marriage, Kari Burroughs Kraakevik explores what it means to finally choose a home — and stay. First published in Divergents Magazine
They were going to throw them away.
Four sets of curtain fairy lights, impossibly tangled, each with 10, maybe 12 feet of fine wire.
They handed me what looked like a three-foot cocoon.
“Have at it.”
I put them in the back seat of my car.
I couldn’t wait to get home and untangle them.
At home, I made my favorite ginger tea, grabbed a cookie from the jar, turned on the fire, and sat on a big Moroccan pillow so I could be level with the cocoon, formerly known as fairy lights.
Of the forty ends, only one was visible.
It called to me.
Here I am.
