Kaia Preus
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Kaia Preus
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View fullsize Happy Father’s Day to the man who doesn’t care about Hallmark holidays, but who cares so deeply about us, his friends, his cats, his trees, his birds, and the earth. My passion and intensity and deep loyalty to true blue friends come from
View fullsize Currently reading Beloved by Toni Morrison. Every sentence will expand your arteries and push beauty and pain and more life to your heart. Join me for a video discussion on June 30th at 5 p.m. if you want to talk about this book and ways we can conti
View fullsize Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, written by Octavia E. Butler and published in 1993 and 1998, respectively, are gripping and moving and resonant. Butler’s writing is prescient—down to a lawless presidential candidate who s
View fullsize My beautiful baby cousin/sister is marrying her perfect man today. Here are a *very select few* of the *many many* photos we have together. @annalise_manske I love you so much! Happy wedding day, Riley! Love, Chloe.
View fullsize #nationalrescuedogday 
you say? I’ll take any reason to post my baby! ...yeah, I think she has it pretty good ๐Ÿฅฐ
View fullsize Just a random photo of my child for you to admire๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’“
View fullsize THE WAR REQUIEM is officially out now! Please order through Small Press Distribution if you would like to purchase a copy. To those who pre-ordered, the last batch is heading out this week, so my lil baby will be in your hands soon! Thank you for all
View fullsize Recent reads. The Round House is for school, the rest for pleasure. Three women was fascinating—thanks for the swap @calli_omalley85 ! Loved Writers and Lovers. Really enjoyed The Graveyard Book. I also loved reading My Antonia—it was the
View fullsize Happy Mother’s Day to my mom and best friend, my sweet Gram Cracker, my mom-in-law, Gramma, and my Work Mom! I love you all. (Plus a photo of me with my puppy daughter, because I am a proud dog mom!) I’m also sending love to all the folks
View fullsize My happy lil fam ๐ŸŒž
View fullsize MY BABY IS FIVE!
Here are some recent pictures of Cleo that I think capture her personality. I cannot being to explain how much I love this sweet creature. Our ability to form deep relationships with other animals is miraculous to me. HBD CLE ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ’•
View fullsize #READINDIE 
Please support indie bookstores and indie publishers. My book would not have found a home unless it were for an independent press that pushes the boundaries of what books can be and celebrates art above all else (the fabulous @essaypress

about

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 Marthaโ€™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 Brevityโ€™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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