BK Loren

BK Loren’s most recent books include the award winning novel, Theft, and the essay collection, Animal, Mineral, Radical. One interpretation of Theft has been adapted by Lauren Maya Davis to a short lyrical film and the same director is working on a feature length film of the novel. Loren's work has garnered the Mountains and Plains Reading the West Book Award, the Colorado Book Award, the Willa Award for the novel, and others, and she’s grateful for the fellowships and grants that have allowed her time to write. Though she’s been published widely in magazines and anthologies (Orion, Winning Writers, The Most Radical Thing You Can Do, The Best Spiritual Writing Anthologies, 2012 and 2004, etc., these days, she gains far more satisfaction from teaching and working with other writers. Loren has also been a ranch hand, a NYC chef, a teacher of Ancient Greek language, art, and mythology, and many other jobs that she feels influence her writing at least as much as her time in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop MFA program. She lives in Colorado with her wife of 38 years. The publisher of her first book told her she writes as if she were raised by wolves. Years later, she’s still trying to live up to that expectation.