Hi, I'm Karissa, a people- and product-oriented, detail-obsessed storyteller, strategist, and creative from Los Angeles. I graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with degrees in English literature and economics. I currently live and work in New York City, where I remain, as ever, a voracious reader, avid vintage shopper, and very fast walker.*
Get in touch at karissafho@gmail.com.
Reading
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Transcription (2026) by Ben Lerner
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Pool House (2026) by Mary H.K. Choi
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The Vivisectors (2026) by Missouri Williams
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Angel Down (2025) by Daniel Kraus
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Taiwan Travelogue (2020) by Yang Shuang-Zi
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Lost Lambs (2026) by Madeline Cash
Listening
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Phoebe's voice is, sincerely, an old friend
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All of my library holds came in at once so it's a mad dash to the finish line
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Walking miles and miles in Central Park. Every weekend I try to outdo the last
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Montauk soon!
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See archive here
*I like the first Jason Bourne movie, Pearl Jam, weddings, Georgia O'Keeffe's flowers, Joan Didion's essays, Munch's woodcuts, Magritte's weird neighborhoods, and Cezanne's "unfinished" landscapes. I drink mostly hot water, write long letters to my friends, do my best work very late at night, and am almost always cold. I strongly dislike coffee, slow drivers, sycophants, and spiders.