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Sometimes it seems I spent my childhood walking at night, hiding in ditches, calming wandering dogs. Of course, that was only part of my childhood, the night half, the hidden …
Sarah and George claimed I’d gone crazy. I suspected I’d gone sane. Though of course, nothing is ever as easy as that. …
In dreams, I always saw myself walking. Get up. Fall down. Get up, fall down. …
We were the fun family. All the kids wanted to play at our house. Working class and artist poor, we always found room for guests. Most weekends, using battered equipment, …
Plainfin midshipman and Pacific Herring attract filmmakers and biologists to our world. …
I wished I knew a word for the green of moss right when it starts up freshly in spring. I would lie down on it and roll around. I would …
I write about nature, inspiration, and literature in Cynthia Newberry Martin's blog. …
“We live in a beautiful, sentient universe that yearns for you to tell the truth about it.” …
The male plot line in so many novels and stories: I saw her. She wanted me. I fucked her. She loved it. My plot line: when walking in the forest …
“To say that Wallace took The Drama of the Gifted Child to heart is to put it very mildly indeed. He returned to it over and over again; his notes were made …
Read Kirie Pedersen's new story "Fall Like a Stone" in PANK Magazine. …
Read Kirie Pedersen's new story "A Walk in the Park" in Manifest-Station. …
Notable essays are drawn from a comprehensive list submitted to the guest editor, Hilton Als and others chosen by series editor Robert Atwan. To qualify, the essay must be “a …
Kirie is interviewed in The Magnolia Review on her love of writing, nature, literature, Palomino Blackwing pencils, and Eagle Cottage, the cabin where she writes every day in 40 minute …
Kirie's essay Getting a Life - Coming of Age With Killers, published in Under the Sun, has been nominated for the prestigious Best American Essays anthology. Read an excerpt here, with a link to the full story. …
Kirie Pedersen's creative non-fiction piece, "In a Dark Time," recipient of the Magnolia Review Ink Award, has also been nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize. Read "In a Dark Time," …
My essay "Saving Paradise" in Still Point Arts Quarterly, is now available online AND right here on this blog post. The essay is timely as communities all over America and the …