S. K. Kruse

S. K. Kruse was born and raised in the small town of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, where she attended Catholic school for twelve years. In 1988, she left to earn an English degree from UW-Madison and launch her writing career. After graduation and her big debut in The Onion, however, she found herself on a twenty-five-year sabbatical to raise eleven children. Since emerging from this truth-is-stranger-than-fiction period of her life, her writing has won multiple awards in the National League of American Pen Women’s “Soul-making Keats Literary Competition,” and her collection of short stories, Tales from the Liminal, has been published by Deuxmers. Kruse is the founder of the Liminal Essay Scholarship and a member of the Guild for Engaged Liminality. She is represented by Amy Collins of Talcott Notch Literary.

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Works that have had a significant influence on her life, thought, and writing in approximate chronological order include Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes, Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984, Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, Thomas A Kempis’s The Imitation of Christ, the New Jerusalem Bible, Eliot’s The Waste Land, Hugo’s Les Misérables, Bonhoeffer’s The Cost of Discipleship, Teilhard de Chardin’s The Phenomenon of Man, Moore’s Dark Nights of the Soul, Tolle’s The Power of Now, Nietzsche’s Parable of the Madman, The Birth of Tragedy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Dostoevsky’s Crime & Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Sartre’s No Exit, Hesse’s Steppenwolf and Demian, Feuerbach’s The Essence of Christianity, Buber’s I and Thou, Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus, Wright’s The Moral Animal, Tillich’s Dynamics of Faith and The Courage to Be, Carroll’s The Existential Jesus, Ricoeur’s The Symbolism of Evil, Emerson’s Self-Reliance, Underhill’s Mysticism, and Trungpa’s The Myth of Freedom.