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Kiini Ibura Salaam is a writer, painter, and traveler from New Orleans, Louisiana. The middle child of five, she grew up in a hardscrabble neighborhood with oak and fig trees, locusts and mosquitoes, cousins and neighbors. Kiini's work delves into spheres of human liberation, human connection, and evolution. She employs speculative fiction and creative nonfiction to take readers through mind-bending journeys into the transcendent, the mystical, and the fantastic.
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BlogKIS.listcancer // Charles Derry // completion // moving forward // support groups // surviving // writing life // writing struggles
Vol. 56, Surviving by Percentages
Posted on 13 March 2007
Brooklyn, NY It’s been a year since my last KIS.list posting. Now, this doesn’t mean it’s been a year since I’ve thought about the KIS.list. I actually have a whole draft of a report on post-Katrina Mardi Gras, which I wrote last year after Mardi Gras 2006. I also have two incomplete posts—one on novel… »
BlogKIS.listcompletion // craft of writing // following through // Frank Gaspar // MFA // Nancy Zafris // novel writing // novels // rejection/acceptance o'meter // story line // structure // themes // throughlines // workshops // writer struggles
Vol. 46, Novel Writing: A Marathon
Posted on 26 December 2004
Conversations with Writing Mentors Antioch University, Los Angeles, CA As unbelievable as it may seem, I am STILL in the race with this novel. It has been quite a long time. I have written three full drafts while in five different countries. I’ve been angry, optimistic, threatened, confronted, and exhausted by the process. I’ve had… »
BlogKIS.listcompletion // confidence // dissertation // faith // rejection/acceptance o'meter // Writer // writer's block // writing advice // writing coach // writing struggles
Vol. 34, The Story of a Dissertation Journey
Posted on 17 July 2003
Brooklyn, New York and Baton Rouge, Louisiana It is mid-July and I am just sitting down to write the KIS.list for May and June. Motherhood certainly has something to do with it. I am not mentally engaged with writing in the same single-minded manner I had been before my daughter’s birth. Now, I have very… »
BlogKIS.listapplications // completion // creativity // finishing projects // grants // kiini // KIS.list // pitching // publication // rejection // rejection/acceptance o'meter // self worth // Sue Shapiro
Vol. 17, Contemplation on Completion
Posted on 28 January 2002
Brooklyn, New York A few months ago, someone suggested I pitch the KIS.list to print publications. They envisioned a syndicated column in magazines and/or newspapers nationwide. This idea interests me, and I thought I’d put it off until later, but then I decided, why not do it now. It took more work than I expected… »