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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.listcareer // critique // hiding out // identity // perspective // rejection/acceptance o'meter // self confidence // self esteem // Self-promotion
Vol. 43, Hiding Out
Posted on 17 May 2004
Brooklyn, NY Oh, the human being is a complex animal. We often work against our own best interests. We pray for our dreams to come true, yet we bow to fear as our god and keep ourselves in boxes because we don’t know what the terrain is like “out there.” If you, as an artist,… »
BlogKIS.listAsian American Writers Workshop // cassandra wilson // chapbooks // Ishle Yi Park // publishing // rejections // self confidence
Vol. 33, Chapbooks: Feeding Your Writer Self
Posted on 6 May 2003
Brooklyn, NY I recently did a reading from Colonize This! at the Asian American Writers Workshop. The Asian American Writers Workshop is a wonderful place. It seemed to be thrumming with literary and community energy. There were: 1000 origami swans soaring across the walls and ceiling; names of Asian American writers affixed to the wall;… »
BlogKIS.listartist's life // Bullshit or Fertilizer // faith // perspective // Pierre Bennu // Promotion // rejection/acceptance o'meter // self confidence // Self-promotion // writer's life // writing struggles
Vol. 30, Hype and Content
Posted on 23 January 2003
A Conversation with a Fellow Writer and a Visual Artist Brooklyn, NY A writer friend of mine was visiting and the topic of hype came up. He brought up a writer’s website he had recently visited. The website pissed him off because the writer claimed to have produced mountains of various types of work, but… »
BlogKIS.listaccolades // commitment // confidence // craft of writing // executing ideas // faith // insecurity // judging // outcome // process // quitting // rejection // rejection/acceptance o'meter // seeing it through // self acceptance // self confidence // success // the artist life // the writing life // trust // writing advice // writing struggles
Vol. 12, Process
Posted on 26 November 2001
Conversations on the F-train with a Writer Friend Manhattan, NY to Brooklyn, NY I hadn’t seen a friend of mine in a while so we decided to take the train home from work together. My friend had just finished her first professional short story and had it picked up for publication. She was so inspired… »