Allison Krupp

floored to announce i won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for fiction. the incomparable Kelly Link was the final judge. thanks to the judges and editors at @NimrodJournal for this honor !

@ctrlarchive thank u i rant about this once a month

one day we will have a srs conversation ab this movie bc outside of aesthetics… it wasn’t good

@rachelkitch omg im so excited for this book !!!

THE FOREST BLEEDS is coming Fall 2026!! beyond grateful that Union Square & Co. is publishing my Appalachian & Southeast Asian-inspired horror. I can't wait to share my twisted and sapphic story (with a side of cryptids and weird horniness) with the world! 🦌🩸🌲

wallets and keys and bikes and friends and dates and apartments and passports and idealisms. i've lost so much but it was never a disaster, and neither was last night, and neither is getting older in this city, which has swallowed so much but always answers back.

we kept looking until past midnight, when we sat on a bench in the inky black of Boxhagener Platz and drank Spätidrinks and talked a lot of shit. i've been here ten years, and i've lost and lost and lost. reminded of Elizabeth Bishop: "the art of losing isn't hard to master."

last night a guy stole my bag. it had medication and keys and life shit in it. but in the erratic panic of the after, i felt berlin open up to me again. hoping the card and cash were taken and the bag was abandoned, two best friends helped me look, and like detectives we plotted

Join us today at 4pm CST to hear the winners of NIMROD’s annual literary awards, Jonathan Diaz (@JonathanADiaz) and Allison Krupp (@allikrupp), read from their work with judges Paisley Rekdal (@PaisleyRekdal) and Kelly Link!

A new look for a new year. Our Winter 2025 issue, which will reach readers in January, features work by writers we’ve admired for years, as well as poems and stories by those just starting their careers. A thing of beauty, inside and out. We couldn’t be more proud.

@_motherslug the vet's daughter absolutely destroyed me !

To anyone who has ever listened to some music, read a book, watched a film, because of something I had to say about it... I love you. Thanks for existing. This world fucking sucks so much of the time but it feels pretty okay to share the good stuff with those who care. ❤️‍🔥

@rachelkitch we have the same birthday ! happy birthday !

yippy balloon day!

women in PHLEGM (poetry, history, language, english literature, ghost stories, music)

it was with religious fervor that i studied my girl elaine benes as a kid & now i'm a 30-something writer in a major city. it's my time. catch me at the cinema w some jujube & a piece of goss that will take u OUT.

tis the season to luxuriate in lush sentences and never leave bed

in my aunt's book, she writes about "allowing your hair to go gray," which is a funny and poetic thing, the idea that we allow it to, when really it just does. #amwriting

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray is a staggering work. midway through that 700-page chonk i texted a friend to say "oh, it's a horror novel," & she said, "yes, i suppose it is." #amreading

two weeks exploring corsica / sleeping in a 1987 VW bus by the sea

#writingcommunity i commissioned illustrations for the paris horror novel from a brilliant artist & wonderful friend. here's the first. (thank u forever Andy Berry!)

"I'm On Fire" covers always slap. what's the math there. what is it about the six-inch valley in the middle of ur soul that is so ubiquitous