Katie McDonough
Bio
Stories
Here Lies Jed
From Prospect Park about cats, Death, Flora and Fauna, mourning, Pets, Prospect Park, Relationships, sadness, Sweet and SourPublished on: 05/22/2011
Katie McDonough received her MFA in creative nonfiction from The New School in 2010. Her work has appeared most recently in the Used Furniture Review. She works at the National Book Foundation in Manhattan and lives in Kensington, Brooklyn with her pet rabbit, Maple.
It was quite an operation. Lookouts on walkie-talkies patrolled the roofline, and a scout on a bike pedaled up and down the block, combing 7th Street between Avenues B and C. A guy in a ski mask stood guard at an open window on one of the apartment building’s upper floors, ready to service the […]
Illustrations by AurĂ©lie Bernard Wortsman The following is the third installment in a work in progress, Observations on Urban Fauna, a contemporary take on the medieval bestiary, featuring actual and apocryphal creatures that share our constricted urban space. Text and image are gleaned from the lifelong perambulations on asphalt and cement by two native New […]
At the Prospect Park station, I sit across from a Hasidic couple on a three-seater bench on the Q train. Parallel to them, in a wheel-locked stroller, is a toddler with unshorn blonde hair, dark eyes that reflect no light, and a suckling baby mouth. He has been dressed in a Canadian tuxedo of many […]
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