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Kaye Linden Registered Nurse and Author
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Kaye has an MFA in creative writing from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts on Whidbey Island. (National accreditation) In addition, she is a licensed R.N. with a bachelor's degree in Nursing.
Kaye signed with Shelfstealers.com late in 2011 to publish her short story collection Fifty Tales from Ma's Watering Hole. Kaye was born and raised in Australia, has lived all over the world and resides in Gainesville, Florida.
Kaye's recent publications include:
"Swords Ready to Drop" in the upcoming 2012 issue of "Drunk Monkey"
"Perfect Body in One Sentence" The Mustache Factor http://mustachefactor.blogspot.com/ Dec. 14th 2011
"Breaking through Stone" Six Minute Stories, print/online editions. 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, nominated for a Pushcart Prize December 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)
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 2011 Bacopa Literary Review
Current short fiction editor of the Bacopa Literary Review (decision-maker for all short fiction for general submissions and contest)
Assistant Editor of Soundings Review
Contest Editor of the NILA Alumni Association Contest 2012
Established and leads a local fiction critique group with eight members
Active leader in short fiction workshops for the Writers Alliance of Gainesville
Competent Communicator Certification in Toastmasters International
Active Florida Registered Nurse license with fifteen years work experience and owner of a medical transcription company "Kaylin Business Consultants."
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, nationally accredited MFA in creative writing in fiction from Whidbey Writers Workshop, multiple classes online with Gotham Writers Workshops and Writers Digest in both poetry and short fiction.
Forums: Writers Alliance of Gainesville memberships, local and distance
The Bacopa Literary Review staff and authors
Facebook forum active and wide-reaching
www.kayelinden.com
Whidbey Island Writers Association Alumni Association
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