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Kali VanBaale

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Born and raised on a dairy farm in rural southern Iowa, Kali VanBaale’s debut novel, THE SPACE BETWEEN (River City Publishing) earned a 2007 American Book Award, the 2007 Independent Publisher’s silver medal for general fiction, the 2007 Iowa Reader Literary Award for Fiction, and the 2006 Fred Bonnie Memorial First Novelist Award. Her short stories, essays, and articles have appeared in the anthologies A Cup of Comfort for Adoptive Families, Voice’s of Alzheimer’s, Voice’s of Caregiver’s, and The Writer.
In 2009, she was awarded a State of Iowa Arts Council major artist grant for work on an untitled second novel.
Kali holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and teaches creative writing and literature at Drake Uni...more


Last night I had the opportunity to serve as a guest judge at a Story Mob event here in Des Moines. Story Mob is the brainchild of local writer Chad Cox where a prop is provided before each event and participantscan sign up to verbally tell a 5-minute story incorporating the prop. A panel of judges score the story from 1-10 to determine a winner and recipient of $100. Audience members also writ...

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Average rating: 4.60 · 25 ratings · 6 reviews · 1 distinct work · Similar authors
The Space Between
4.6 of 5 stars 4.60 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2006

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Kali VanBaale is currently reading
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
(4 1/2 stars)
I deeply enjoyed Cheryl Strayed's WILD. Like her PCT adventure itself, her writing is gutsy, raw and unpredictable. As I read the last 5 pages and the last miles of her journey, my heart also ached with hers to see the end on the horizo...more
Kali VanBaale wants to read
The Collected Stories by Richard Yates
Kali VanBaale wants to read
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates
Kali VanBaale wants to read
The Easter Parade by Richard Yates
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Revolutionary Road
by Richard Yates
read in January, 2010
This is one of those books that as a writer, I felt torn between awe of the writing, and despair that I should just give up myself because I'll never be that good. The story of Frank and April is so familiar, conjuring up some couple we've all know s...more
The Least You Need to Know by Lee  Martin
Kali VanBaale is now a fan of Goodreads Author Lee Martin
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More of Kali's books…
“I write for the same reason I breathe, because I have to.”
― Isaac Asner

P.J. O'Rourke
“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
P.J. O'Rourke

David Letterman
“If it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.”
David Letterman

Augusten Burroughs
“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking: True Stories

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
― Buckminster Fuller

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