Brittany Micka-Foos

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About Brittany Micka-Foos
Brittany Micka-Foos is a writer and editor living in the Pacific Northwest. A former victim's rights lawyer in Washington, DC, Brittany turned her attention to writing after the birth of her first child. She has published a smattering of poems and short stories in various publications, including Hamlit, fws: a journal of literature and art, CC&D magazine, and Blanket Stories (Ragged Sky Press). She is also Skagit Valley's municipal liaison for National Novel Writing Month. She earned her BA in English at the Evergreen State College. Her blog is boringanddangerous.wordpress.com.
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Blog postCheck out my newest short story published in Variant Literature, Issue 6, Winter 2020. Hard copies available here!
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Blog postI’m excited to announce that In Parentheses has published my poem, Feral City. It’s a poem I wrote about wanting to move to Canada and also about growing older. See the post here and pick up a copy of the magazine here (digital or in-print)!
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Blog postI’m a little behind, but: Happy New Year!
2021 has been off to a strange start so far (to put it mildly). It’s been something like science fiction. After being told by my doctor back in November that I “probably” had cancer, three biopsies later, it turns out that I probably don’t. What I do have, though, is an abdominal wall endometrioma, which is the medical way of saying there’s a piece of uterus growing where it shouldn’t (my abdomen). Turns out, the stomach pain I’ve been having3 months ago Read more -
Blog postThis November, I turned 35. A few days later the election happened. A few days later, my daughter turned 4. And so on.
On my birthday, I suddenly remembered a passage in a Kurt Vonnegut book I read when I was probably 15 or 16. I couldn’t remember the book, I couldn’t remember really much of the details except that the character Kilgore Trout ends up talking directly to the author, who is, of course, Kurt Vonnegut. Trout is imploring his creator, he howls his one request into the void5 months ago Read more -
Blog postHappy October! It’s my favorite season, and I wanted to write about something timely. Here in the Pacific Northwest, this is when we see spiders everywhere. In my house, there’s always a week or two when the giant house spiders emerge from wherever the hell, wandering around presumably in search of a mate. They come out of the woodwork. I’m always really edgy during that time.
I’m both fascinated and frightened by spiders.
I recognize my fear as somewhat overblown and irration6 months ago Read more -
Blog postIt recently occurred to me: I have no photos of myself during my pregnancy or the first year of my daughter’s life. This strikes me as so sad, not because I missed out on the photo opportunity, but because it’s evidence of the self loathing I felt at the time.
Motherhood for me has always been a sort of a struggle. It’s not something that I would say comes easily. Most of the time, it isn’t that easy for me to enjoy. Motherhood, for me, came with a sense of loss. And a sense of obliga6 months ago Read more -
Blog postI’m a stay-at-home mom. I used to be a lawyer, though not a particularly good one, and not for very long. I quit because I found it to be an intolerable combination of boring and stressful. I’ve experienced some side eye and, a few times, outright judgment for leaving my “career,” and I never know how to answer questions about when I’m going back to work. Truth is, I don’t want to go back. I’ve never felt like the workforce, that monolithic, sinister entity, did me any favors. Its frequent at7 months ago Read more
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Blog postIt’s been a while since I’ve posted, and I wanted to write an update about what’s been going on for me.
I’ve been struggling lately with the direction in which I want to take this blog. I’ve often felt like it’s disjointed, that it lacks a cohesive subject matter or at least a unifying voice. This makes it more difficult to come up with content, in addition to the blog being, I think, a less useful resource. And I get very frustrated when I write those fluffy, straightforward posts (17 months ago Read more -
Blog postDoes someone really exist in today’s world without a social media presence? When I deleted my facebook a few years ago, it felt like a tiny death. A insignificant, somewhat gleeful death, but a death nonetheless. Connections were severed: all those people I knew–or had known, once–disappeared. And I missed out. On invitations, updates, information. … Continue reading Social Media Eats Away at Your Soul10 months ago Read more
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Blog postLike many of us, I’ve been thinking about how 2020 turned out much differently than I expected. So much of 2020 has been challenging, disheartening, depressing. There’s so much fear in the world right now, and I spend so much energy trying to keep it at bay. And yet the isolation has also provided time to reflect on my priorities and the space for important truths to emerge. It’s my hope that we can move through 2020 and become better for it.
Every year I do a weekend retreat where I10 months ago Read more
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