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.