Updated June 28, 2025.
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 (fuck you, Jeff Bezos), where she’d been an essayist who wrote extensively about Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.
Her work has also appeared in The Believer, BlackBook, Bookmarks, Esquire, Flare Lit Mag, Flash Fiction Magazine, Filter, Hobart, Jezebel, The Literary Underground, The Manifest Station, McSweeney’s, Monkeybicycle, MSN, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Nervous Breakdown, Nylon, The Onion’s A.V. Club, The Organ, Paper, Paste, PEN Center USA, Poets & Writers, Publishers Weekly, The Rumpus, Salon, Short Beasts, Slate, Spartan Lit, The Weeklings, several anthologies, myriad other outlets, and on NPR, KUOW, and additional radio programs and podcasts.
She has interviewed Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, Betty Davis (the legendary, reclusive soul singer), Death Cab for Cutie, Estelle, Jenifer Lewis, Janelle Monae, Alanis Morissette, Kelly Rowland, Wanda Sykes, Tegan and Sara, Rufus Wainwright, Ann Wilson and several dozen other artists.
She lives in Seattle with her dog Jordan.
Contact: litsa.dremousis@gmail.com.
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