About
KRISTIN KAYE is an award-winning author, ghostwriter, book coach and founder of Literary Alchemy, an online writing community to support writers of all levels to write their essential story. Courses include Literary Alchemy: A 6-Month Book Writing Course to Find Your Gold and Write Your Essential Story for writers compelled to pen book-length work and Alchemy Elements for writers interested in developing their craft and investigating essential aspects of narrative and the writing process.
Kristin’s books include her novel Tree Dreams (WINNER 2018 International Books Awards: YA Fiction, FINALIST 2019 NextGen Indie Book Awards: Regional Fiction) and her memoir Iron Maidens: The Celebration of the Most Awesome Female Muscle in the World, which was short-listed for the Oregon Book Awards in literary non-fiction. Kristin’s ghostwriting projects cover a wide array of topics from business and design to spirituality, self-help and Tibetan Buddhism. Ghostwritten articles have been placed in Fast Company and Business Week among many others and books have been accepted for representation with literary agents.
Kristin’s work often spills off the page and into the world in the form of social practice projects. The Tree Dreams global tree tagging campaign celebrates the myriad ways we are connected to each other, to nature and to our future. Tree Dreams has also been adapted for the classroom. And The Duff Dinners literary salon featured foresters and writers in the woods of Oregon.
Kristin has hosted events and taught workshops across the U.S. including at the American Library Association, National Science Teachers Association, California Academy of Sciences, California Association of Environmental and Outdoor Educators, Delaware Green Schools Alliance, at the Young Artists Institute at Southern Oregon University and The Aligned Center in New York.
Featured Work
Tree Dreams
"...the author relates the protagonist’s tale of redemption in delightfully sparse language, like a long poem in which small details matter, every word counts, and images are so cogent that they anchor readers in the fictive reality like tree roots . . . A superbly written tale filled with realistic, engaging, and quirky characters.” —Kirkus Reviews
When seventeen-year-old Jade Reynolds witnesses a violent clash between a protesting tree sitter and a local logger, she is forced to flee the California town she grew up in. Jade runs as far as she can from the battles that plague her home and from the mysteries of the redwood forest, but the ancient redwoods are embedded in her psyche—she feels their call even in the dark and forgotten back alleys of Portland, Oregon where she’s hiding out. She soon becomes entangled with a lovable misfit and a band of radical slackers, environmentalists, and anarchists, and finds herself living 100 feet high in the canopy of a redwood grove, trying to decide whose side she’s on: the logging community she’s known her entire life or the environmentalists who are risking their lives for the future of the forest. When choosing sides only makes matters worse, Jade turns to the ancient trees themselves—and the thread-thin web that connects us all.
