Litsa Dremousis

Litsa Dremousis is the author of "Altitude Sickness" (Future Tense Books). “The book is a howl of pain, a bellow of grief, and a funny-sad Irish funeral for a lover and friend, combining deep wisdom about mortality with an almost naive sensibility...The length is just about perfect: Any shorter and the thousand opposing facets of her experience wouldn’t be fully examined, but any longer might dilute her laser-sharp focus on the subject.”--Paul Constant, The Stranger. Her essay "After the Fire" was selected as one of the "Most Notable Essays of 2011" by Best American Essays 2012. She’s a Contributing Editor at The Weeklings. The Seattle Weekly named her one of "50 Women Who Rock Seattle". Seattle Metropolitan named "Altitude Sickness" one of "20 Books Every Seattleite Must Read", a list of the 20 all-time best books related to Seattle. She is an essayist with the Washington Post. Her work also appears in The Believer, BlackBook, Esquire, Jezebel, McSweeney's, MSN, New York Magazine, Nerve, Paste, Poets & Writers, Publishers Weekly, Salon, Slate, The Weeklings, on NPR, KUOW, and additional venues. She has interviewed Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, Betty Davis (the legendary, reclusive soul singer), Death Cab for Cutie, Estelle, Janelle Monae, Wanda Sykes, Rufus Wainwright, Ann Wilson and several dozen others. @LitsaDremousis. litsadremousis.com