ABOUT KAYE

Kaye Linden was born and raised in Australia; hence, her penchant for stories and novels set in Australia. She lives in Gainesville, Florida (with three dogs, because all Shelfstealers’ authors must either have pets, or have had pets in the past, or plan on having pets in the future), but remains ever nostalgic about her homeland.

And she’s living proof that having an MFA in fiction does not prevent you from finding a publisher – witness her success with Shelfstealers. Kaye’s MFA is from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts on Whidbey Island, Florida. She has too many publications to list here, but you can read some of them online:

• Fractured Parts, Dogzplot, July, 2011;
• Shadowing the Shadow, 6tales.com, February, 2011; 
• She Wears Hot Pink Jeans, Whispers from the Unseen, September 2009;
• Saving Face, Whispers from the Unseen, May, 2009;
• Intocable (Untouchable), Breves No Tan Breves, March, 2009 (translated into Spanish)

Kaye is a member of the Florida Writers Association, Writers Alliance of Gainesville, and she teaches short fiction classes at Santa Fe College in Gainesville. She’s the Past-Editor-in-Chief (2010-11) and current short fiction editor of the Bacopa Literary Review.

Did you know that . . .

. . . Kaye has her International Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do? (be careful if you run into her in a dark alley)

. . .she has her Competent Communicator Certification in Toastmasters International (and we’re sure she’ll agree to give all our authors lessons in public speaking, if we ask her nicely, won’t you, Kaye?)

. . .  she has lived on an ashram in northern India where she practiced the art of looking within and without

. . . she grew up in Australia, moved to Israel with her parents, lived on a kibbutz for two years, in a vegetarian village for one year, hiked and worked in Europe for a year, and stopped, more or less, in the USA (the rest is history)

. . . she speaks Hebrew, poor French, understands German, plays folk guitar and sings – but not in public

. . . her favorite place on earth besides Australia and Durango, Colorado is the Amazon jungle

. . .her favorite animal besides a Labrador is the largest rodent on earth – a capybara – and it lives in the Amazon

. . . she likes the USA and its kind, generous people – her husband is from Detroit

. . . she has three sons, but all three of her dogs are female.