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  <name><![CDATA[Kaya McLaren]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[The new-improved CHURCH OF THE DOG was re-released in late May of 2008. ON THE DIVINITY OF SECOND CHANCES will finally come out in paperback in April 2009. My long-awaited new novel, HOW I CAME TO SPARKLE AGAIN will be out the following year. Viking/Penguin is my new publisher!

I've been an archaeologist, a massage therapist, an art teacher and an elementary teacher. 

When I'm not working, I love to telemark ski, cross-country ski, swim in lakes with my dog, skate ski, skate board (long board), sing and play bass at open mic night at the local coffee house, paint, road or mountain bike, garden, and every once in a while I make a quilt or stained glass window. I just learned to surf and can't wait to do it again! 

I wrote CHURCH OF THE DOG in the bathtub. I liked the sense that I was multi-tasking.

I have a yellow lab- German shepherd named Big Cedar the Dog Food Eater. You can see his profile on Dogster.com. It's under Big Cedar.

I'd like to shamelessly plug membership in the &quot;I Love Kaya McLaren&quot; group here on Goodreads. :)]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[the moon (I'm a cancer)]]></influences>  <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Seattle</hometown>  <born_at>07/17/1969</born_at>    
  
  
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