I'm a former cab driver, former writing teacher/tutor & adjunct English professor, former literary journal editor, former newspaper reporter/feature writer/columnist, and former many other things (grocery bagger, video store clerk, janitor...).

My post-Roe v. Wade novel THE AGE OF THE CHILD, about the immediate & 20-years-later impact of a Roe v. Wade overturn, is available in paperback wherever you buy them, on Audible, and on Kindle.

"Kristen Tsetsi has done the most frightening thing any artist can do by taking a current threat to human rights and following it to a logical conclusion. The children suffer the most in this novel as fear of the law forces unwilling people to be parents. ... The Age of the Child packages important social commentary in a moving story." Readers' Favorite



Other novels: auto-fiction wartime novel PRETTY MUCH TRUE, & man's-midlife-crisis-as-viewed-through-the-female-gaze novel THE YEAR OF DAN PALACE.

I've contributed to JaneFriedman.com, mostly with Q&As with writers and others in the publishing industry.

Childfree Girls is a (retired, but available) web series and podcast I was 1/3 part of and am 3/3 proud of. Short fiction collection: CAROL'S AQUARIUM.

4 Medium posts I'd save from a Medium collapse

You Don't Have to "Write What You Know" or "Show-Don't Tell"

Have All the Legends Already Been Made?

My Dad’s Death Made Me Explore the Idea of “Childfree Regret”

Giving Up on Traditional Publishing in the Name of Love Procrastination: picture-taking