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. She is seeking representation for her first novel, We Have Always Been Falling.
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.
We Have Always Been Falling
A physicists searches for a way to apply quantum error mitgation to her own life: to grief, to dependency, and to the men she has to keep working around.
An excerpt, “Entangled,” appeared in the Fall 2025 issue of October Hill Magazine.
Recent work
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Best Fountain Pen InksRead →
Satire · Slackjaw · May 2026
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Peer Review of ‘The Impact of Female Hormonal Transitions on Male Partners’Read →
Satire · The Belladonna Comedy · Apr 2026
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Entangled — Excerpt from We Have Always Been FallingRead →
Fiction · October Hill Magazine, Vol. 9 No. 3 · Fall 2025
Content note: this excerpt contains material some readers may find upsetting.
About the Author
Fig. 1 — the author, Ann Arbor, MI
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 Slackjaw and The Belladonna Comedy, and an excerpt from her novel, We Have Always Been Falling, was published in October Hill Magazine.
She lives in Michigan with her family and two cats, who always get staring roles in her books. We Have Always Been Falling is her first novel.
Contact
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