Kaye Linden
Author   Editor/speaker/teacher   Writing Consultant/ copywrighter

Kaye's Biography


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Biography of Kaye Linden

 

Kaye has an MFA in fiction from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts on Whidbey Island. She is about to sign with Shelfstealers.com for serialization and eventual publication of her completed collection of Australian tales set in Ma's urban sanctuary .( Fifty Tales from Ma's Watering Hole.) Kaye was born and raised in Australia and resides in Gainesville, Florida. 


Kaye's recent publications include:

December 2011 nomination for a Pushcart Prize for "A Shaman Goes Walkabout" a prose piece.

Acceptance for publication of "Fifty Tales from Ma's Watering Hole" by Shelfstealers.com

"A Perfect Body in One Sentence" December 15th 2011  http://mustachefactor.blogspot.com/

"Breaking through Stone" Six Minute Stories, print edition. September 2011

"Fractured Parts" Dogzplot July 2011

"The New Uluru" narrated at The Shortest Stories.com February 2011

"A Shaman Goes Walkabout" in The Linnet's Wings print edition 2011

"Shadowing the Shadow" 6tales.com.  February 2011

"Ten Thousand Miles from Home" The Bacopa Literary Review 2010 journal

"Ma Tells a Tale" Danse Macabre November 2010

"Ma" The Camel Saloon, June 24th 2010

"She Wears Hot Pink Jeans" Whispers from the Unseen, A Journal and Forum for

Writing in the Arts, September 2009

"Last Breath" The Soundings Review 2009

"Saving Face" Whispers from the Unseen May 2009

"Intocable" Breves No Tan Breves, March 2009

"The Brain Tumor in Room Thirteen" Expressions magazine, March 2009

"A Homeless Legacy" The Raven Chronicles Vol. 14 Legacies issue.

"False Witness" Expressions magazine September 2008


Affiliations include the Florida Writers Association, Writers Alliance of Gainesville, The Bacopa Literary Review, Toastmasters International (certification in Competent Communication) licensed R.N.

Relevant information: Current teacher of short fiction classes at Santa Fe College, Gainesville

Past Editor-in-Chief (2010-11) of the Bacopa Literary Review, Writers Alliance of Gainesville — duties included supervision of a five member team, administration, trouble-shooting and decision making on all aspects of the print journal.

Responsible for the publication of the current edition of the 2011 Bacopa Literary Review

Current short fiction editor of the Bacopa Literary Review 2012

Competent Communicator Certification in Toastmasters International

International Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do with fifteen years in general martial arts

Past education includes, but is not limited to, a Bachelors' degree in Science/Nursing, MFA in creative writing, multiple classes online with Gotham Writers Workshops and Writers Digest in both poetry and short fiction.