April Meeting
Wednesday
April 9, 2008
7 p.m.
Borders
91st & Metcalf
Overland Park, Kansas
Our April speaker Rose Marie Kinder is a writer, editor, and teacher. She earned her degrees at the University of Arizona at Tucson. After receiving her Ph.D. in 1990, she returned to the Midwest to teach at the University of Central Missouri (UCM), where she became editor of the then annual, in-house, student publication Pleiades (now Pleiades: a Journal of New Writing), and began its transition to a semiannual, national journal. Kinder developed and coordinated the creative writing program at UCM. She is currently editor emerita of Pleiades, reads fiction for that journal and for New Letters (University of Missouri, Kansas City). Professor emerita, she continues to teach at the university level, and leads workshops, discussions, and programs in various venues.
Kinder’s short fiction has appeared primarily in literary journals, most recently in Zone 3, Descant, and Notre Dame Review. Two collections of her stories have been published, A Near Perfect Gift (University of Michigan Press, 2005) and Sweet Angel Band (Helicon Nine Editions, 1991). She also writes genre pieces such as “Jeremy,” which appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and was anthologized in The Deadliest Games: Tales of Psychological Suspense, and “The Elm Witch” in After Hours. Her first novel, An Absolute Gentleman, is a literary thriller—a psychological study of a serial killer.
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