Litsa Dremousis (she/her) is the author of Altitude Sickness (Future Tense Books). Seattle Metropolitan Magazine named it one of the all-time "20 Books Every Seattleite Must Read". Her essay "After the Fire" was selected as one of the "Most Notable Essays 2011” by Best American Essays, and The Seattle Weekly named her one of "50 Women Who Rock Seattle". She recently left the Washington Post, where she’d been an essayist who wrote extensively about Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.
Her work has also appeared in The Believer, Bright Flash Literary Review, Esquire, Filter, Flare Lit Mag, Flash Fiction Magazine, Hobart, Jezebel, The Literary Underground, The Manifest Station, McSweeney’s, Monkeybicycle, MSN, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Nylon, The Onion's A.V. Club, Paper, Paste, PEN Center USA, Pictura Journal, Poets & Writers, Publishers Weekly, The Rumpus, Salon, Shine Poetry Quarterly, Short Beasts, Slate, several anthologies, myriad other outlets, and on NPR, KUOW, and additional radio programs and podcasts.