Marilyn Kriete

After a colorful life spanning four continents and sixteen cities, earning her keep as cook, chambermaid, waitress, fisherwoman, missionary, speaker/teacher, tutor, and academic writing editor, Marilyn Kriete now lives in Kelowna,British Columbia, Canada, with her husband. Her essays and poetry have been widely published in The Lyric, Storyteller, The Eastern Iowa Review, The English Bay Review, and Brevity Blog. Her nonfiction essay won first prize in the Wine Country Writers Festival Writing Contest 2022. The follow-up to her multi-award-winning debut memoir is The Box Must Be Empty: A Memoir of Complicated Grief, Spiritual Despair, and Ultimate Healing.