Kristina Neihouse

Kristina Neihouse writes. Her creative honors include 2nd place in the 2018 Tennessee Williams Short Story contest, third place winner of the Women On Writing Q2 2019 Flash Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest, and recipient of the 2018 Florida Book Awards silver medal for Young Adult fiction. She has received three Anne McKee Artist Fund grants for novels in her Knowing When to Leave trilogy. In 2020 she was awarded a Florida Keys Council of the Arts grant to finish her short memoir about the death of a friend, “For James.” When not writing she reads, scratches cats, hugs trees and spends Saturday mornings in the local detention center talking all things writing with the female inmates. Read their work here: www.writeonpublished.wordpress.com. Kristina also has a sporadically kept blog www.kanwrites.com.