Kaye Linden

Kaye is an Australian living in Florida. She has an MFA in fiction from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts on Whidbey Island, is past editor and short fiction editor with the Bacopa Literary Review, current assistant editor for Soundings Review, occasional short fiction adult education teacher at Santa Fe College, and medical editor and reviewer for “Epresent learning lecture reviews.”    

Kaye’s linked Australian tale collection "Tales from Ma’s Watering Hole" is currently available where books are sold. (Amazon)  Kaye was nominated in 2011 for a Pushcart prize for one of Ma’s tales. Her short stories, prose and haiku have been published in multiple journals, too numerous to list, available upon request.  Visit Kaye at www.kayelinden.com and sign up to follow her blog about Australian mythology and short fiction craft.  


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.