Even before she knew how to form the letters of the alphabet, Kristin Thiel was "writing," dictating stories to her mom to put on paper. Later she would scarf through meals to get back to what her characters were up to on paper, and she read all the time, even while brushing her teeth.

 In 2006 Kristin won the Elisabeth A. McPherson Award for Women Writers and in 2007 the Ooligan Editors’ Choice short story contest. Her story “Pilgrim for Hire” was published in VoiceCatcher 2, and she read from it over KBOO's airwaves and to an audience of almost one hundred at Portland’s Central Library. An excerpt from that story is also in the reference book Don’t Sabotage Your Submission: Save Your Manuscript from Turning Up D.O.A.

Also editing fiction and nonfiction for a variety of clients—among them individual authors, Coffee House Press, Simon & Schuster, HarperOne, the National Youth Leadership Council, Portland State University, and Bitch magazine—Kristin loves the written word, its playfulness and intricacies, and working with writers to snap each one into just the right spot.

 Kristin signs on here, at www.kristinthiel.com, and at www.indigoediting.com.