Kirie is a writer, editor, and educator. Her writing appears or will appear shortly in Caper Journal, Wisconsin Review, Eleven Eleven, Eclipse, RiverSedge, Utne Reader, SevenDays, The View from Here, Regeneration (Rodale Press), Avatar Review, Northwest People, Chaffey Review, Teachers and Writers, American Motorcyclist, Folly, A Gourmet Notebook, Teachers and Writers, Rkvery Literary Quarterly, Blue Stem, Laurel Review (Greentower Press), Burrow Press Review, Glossolalia, Avatar Review, Quiddity International Journal and Public Radio Program, South Jersey Underground, Burrow Press, Foliate Oak, Juked, Pithead Chapel, Apocrypha & Abstractions, Superstition Review, Hackwriters Magazine, The Great American Literary Magazine, Agave Review, Eclectica, Ginosko Literary Journal, New Plains Review, END/PAIN, Lunch Ticket, Weber Journal, Cease, Cows, Mount Hope Magazine, Kaleidoscope, Emrys Journal, The Artist Unleashed, Under the Sun (nominated for 2017 Best American Essays), Noctua Review (fiction finalist), Magnolia Review (winner of Ink Award, nominated for Pushcart Prize), Sou’wester, Still Point Arts Quarterly (nominated for Pushcart Prize), and elsewhere. She has taught writing for gifted and talented inner city students, elders, and enlisted men and women and their children.
Washington State commissioned and published Kirie’s Writing Handbook for Teachers and Tutors (published in Spanish and English) and Teaching Creative Writing Using Native American Songs and Myths.
Kirie holds her M.A. in fiction writing from Western Washington University, where she was privileged to study with Annie Dillard, Eugene K. Garber, and Kelly Cherry.
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