About BK

BK Loren

I was born premature.  That was the end of my precociousness.  Mostly, I have spent my life trying to find quiet jobs that allow some psychological space where I can write in my head as I work.  I’ve worked on a ranch, in a candy factory (Russell Stover), in retail stores selling shoes.  I’ve built furniture, cooked for a gourmet catering service in NYC, cooked, also, in a weird little cafe run by a reverend healer who cured people’s ailments with a pendulum and herbs.  I was an aide on a locked psych ward, a tenured college professor, a graphic artist, a UPS driver, and now and again I still work as a professional brainstormer for branding companies. I was extremely grateful for the chance to go to college (it was never a given), but I also feel that these life experiences inform my writing as much as any class ever has.  The publishing editor of my first book told me I wrote like I was raised by wolves. I try to live up to that daily.

Upcoming Events

THEFT wins the 2012 READING THE WEST BOOK AWARD!  This one means everything to me, because it supports independent booksellers and bookstores, too. Huge thanks to my readers and to independent booksellers everywhere.

• June 9 – 16: Iowa Summer Writing Festival, Iowa City Iowa.
  
• June 11, Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, Iowa, 7:30
  
• July 7, Bookworks, in Albuquerque.
  
• July 8-14: SMU Taos Campus, Writing Program Workshop.
• July 13, Moby Dickens in Taos
  
• July 14 – 21, Taos Writing Conference.
• August 1 – 10: Chatham University Keynote for Low Residency.
• November 4: SUNY Oswego, Living Writers Series presentation, discussion, book signing
• November 5: Reading at Buffalo Street Books, Ithaca, NY.
  

If you’re interested in bringing me in for a reading, lecture, or interactive presentation, please contact me.