Fiction · Satire · Essays
Stories that stay after the last page.
KC Paradis writes about medicine, family, and the absurdities of both. Her first book, Parenting on the Frontlines, won a 2024 Midwest Book Award. A novel is underway.
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Books
Parenting on the Frontlines
A collection of true stories from healthcare workers about the collision of caregiving at work and caregiving at home: the mystery stains, the unmuted Zoom calls, and the losses that arrive without warning.
Written by clinicians and staff at Michigan Medicine, it speaks to anyone who has ever wondered, in the middle of it all, whether they were alone in this.
Recent Work
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Peer Review of ‘The Impact of Female Hormonal Transitions on Male Partners’Read on Medium →
Satire · The Belladonna Comedy · April 2026
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Excerpt from a Novel in ProgressRead the Issue →
Fiction · October Hill Magazine, Vol. 9 No. 3 · Fall 2025
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About the Author
KC Paradis is a writer and medical physicist at the University of Michigan. Her work moves between fiction, satire, and essays, often drawing on life inside medicine and out.
With Dr. Helen Morgan, she created Parenting on the Frontlines: Stories of Love, Loss, and Wonder (Maize Books, 2023), winner of a 2024 Midwest Book Award. Her satire has appeared in The Belladonna Comedy, and an excerpt from her novel in progress was published in October Hill Magazine.
She lives in Michigan, where she is at work on her debut novel.