current class offerings

With over a decade of teaching experience at the adult, collegiate, and high school level, Kaia prides herself on creating a learning environment that is safe, joyful, and productive.

Kaia currently teaches an 8-week course in person at The Loft Literary Center in downtown Minneapolis. This multi-genre course is for anyone who identifies as a mother writer, and anyone who sometimes feels the tension between those roles. Classes are designed to give mother writers a place to write and to engage in a community of artistic support.

Sessions typically run in the fall, winter, and spring. For more information, please visit loft.org.

testimonials

“I really appreciated the breadth of work and how well Kaia integrated writing exercises. A very safe, warm space.” —Winter 2026 Cohort Member

“This has helped motivate me to keep working on my novel and to see my life as a mom as not a hindrance, but a complement. Kaia was great. A wonderful presence as a leader, good humor, and an appropriate but gentle ability to steer discussion.” —Winter 2026 Cohort Member

“[In this class] you will find a welcoming and creative community to grow your writing with. This class has helped me center my relatively new identity as a mother. I LOVED this class and Kaia.” —Winter 2026 Cohort Member

“Thanks so much for creating this mental, physical, social, and artistic space for all of us—your inclusivity surrounds you like a halo.” —Summer 2025 Cohort Member

“The Mother-Writer class was a transformative experience for me. It gave me the space and inspiration to actually write — something I hadn’t done in a long time — but even more profoundly, it reawakened my identity as a writer and artist, which I realized I felt like I’d lost claim to when I became a mother. Both mothers and artists need and thrive within community, but that can be especially hard to come by for mother-artists. In this class I found my community, not only with Kaia and my fellow students but also within the art we discussed that spanned eras, genres and forms but all coalesced to make me feel less alone and truly connected. I felt motivated and energized by our conversations, prompts, and the experience of coming together. I am grateful to Kaia for recognizing this need and for holding a safe, supportive, pressure-free space for mothers to explore their total selves in writing." —Winter 2025 Cohort Member