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Kaia Preus received her MFA from The Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins University in 2015. Her first book, The War Requiem, was a 2021 Minnesota Book Award Finalist and was chosen by Rebecca Brown to win the Essay Press and University of Washington at Bothell MFA Book Contest. Her has received an Author Fellowship from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and her essays and fiction have been published in Lit Hub, Pleiades, The Drum, The Briar Cliff Review, and Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog, among others. She has taught and coached writing at Augsburg University and St. Olaf College, and she currently teaches The Mother Writer course at The Loft Literary Center. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband and son and is at work on a novel.

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