Kali White VanBaale

Kali White VanBaale is the author of the novels The Monsters We Make (Kali White) and The Good Divide and The Space Between (Kali VanBaale). She’s the recipient of an American Book Award, an Eric Hoffer Book Award, and an Independent Publisher’s silver medal for fiction, among others. Her short stories and essays have appeared in the Coachella Review, the Chaffey Review, Midwestern Gothic, Nowhere Magazine, Poets & Writers, the Writer, the Writers’ Chronicle, and several anthologies. She’s the managing editor of the essay series Past Ten and serves as a volunteer for the PEN America Prison & Justice Writing program. Kali holds an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is a core faculty member of the Lindenwood University MFA Creative Writing Program, where she teaches fiction, nonfiction, and literature and was named Adjunct Professor of the Year in 2022. She lives in Iowa with her family. You can find more at kaliwhite.com