Mitzi Rapkin
Fiction
Aspen, CO
Mitzi Rapkin is a journalist, fiction writer, and host and producer of the literary podcast First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing. She is working on her first novel, a satirical comedy based in Alaska. She earned an M.S. in Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and an MFA in Fiction from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. At Ragdale she will be working on a second draft of her novel.
Featured Work
The Jagged Sound of January
Excerpt by Mitzi Rapkin
I came north for the money. Specifically because there was none. MAN SEEKS LOW SALARY IN DISTANT LOCALE. That was the shocking headline that summed up the demise of my life before KUAK. My divorce decree said if I made less than twenty grand a year I would be off the hook for alimony (cha-ching) plus Luanne would have to take over her own damn law school loans and turn over monthly scratch to me for “maintenance”. I should have left her when the first loan payment came due in 1999. Hindsight.