Press

AWARDS

2022 Lambda Literary Finalist in Fiction, Lambda Literary

Joyce Carol Oates Prize Longlist, New Literary Project

Best Author Kristen Arnett 2021, Miami New Times

Felt in the Jaw

Stories and Slurpees, The New York Times

Mostly Dead Things

4 Writers to Watch This Summer, The New York Times

These Two Really Funny Debuts Both Start With a Dead Body, The New York Times

‘Mostly Dead Things,’ a Story of Taxidermy, Love and Grief, With Echoes of Past Literary Heroines, The New York Times

Taxidermy is a Metaphor For Our Time, The New Yorker

Kristen Arnett Reimagines Taxidermy as a Queer Art Form, Vanity Fair

Macabre And Irreverent, 'Mostly Dead Things' Is A Satisfying Journey, NPR

On Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett, Kenyon Review

‘Mostly Dead Things’ captures the humor and strangeness of Florida without the easy stereotypes, The Washington Post

Mostly Dead Things is very Florida, very gay, and very good, Entertainment Weekly

Loneliness, Resurrection, and Taxidermy: A Conversation with Kristen Arnett, Los Angeles Review of Books

Kristen Arnett on the Butch Women Who Inspired Her, The Cut

WItH TEETH

Kristen Arnett’s With Teeth Sinks In, Vanity Fair

Kristen Arnett’s New Novel, With Teeth, Is a Beautiful, Startling Demystification of Queer Family, VOGUE

Kristen Arnett’s ‘With Teeth’ gives voice to a parent’s darkest thoughts, Washington Post

Kristen Arnett's queer family drama 'With Teeth' is unafraid and un-put-down-able, USA Today

With Teeth: A Darkly Comical Story That Will Sink Deep Into Your Psyche, POPSUGAR

In With Teeth, Kristen Arnett Focuses on Messy Queers and Dysfunctional Relationships, Miami New Times

A Perfect Marriage: Uniting Form and Function in “With Teeth”, Chicago Review of Books

A LOVE THAT LEAVES SCARS: WITH TEETH BY KRISTEN ARNETT, The Rumpus

Kristen Arnett Gets Her Best Ideas at the Bar, INTERVIEW

Shelf Life: Kristen Arnett, ELLE

On Knowing Where To Start, The Creative Independent

Kristen Arnett’s “With Teeth” Packs a Huge Bite, Bitch Media

Kristen Arnett’s ‘With Teeth’ Bites Back, Shondaland

Kristen Arnett on “With Teeth,” Lesbian Motherhood, and Sagittarius Chaos, Autostraddle

Lesbian Domestic: Kristen Arnett Interviewed by Leigh Hopkins, BOMB Magazine

THE PEN TEN: AN INTERVIEW WITH KRISTEN ARNETT, PEN America

Flawed, but Believable: Kristen Arnett’s ‘With Teeth’ Poses Interesting Questions about Identity, Family, and Societal Expectations, Southern Review of Books