Kirsten J. West is a writer and an educator. She has written over 20 study guides on classic literature. Occasionally, her dark poetry escapes its Emily Dickinson style fate, survives its foray into the desk drawer and is published. Her true love is fiction, and she writes in several genres, including urban fantasy imbued with gothic undertones, memoir laced with pathos and romance drenched in passion and humour.

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Kirsten’s short form pieces can be found in journals like The Quarry, Sinkhole and Literary Cocktail Magazine. She was shortlisted in the Living Stories: Western Sydney Writing prize, featured as a highly commended writer in the Living Stories: Over the Line anthology and was chosen as one of the successful writers published in BAD Western Sydney, the Second Case. Kirsten has a Masters in Creative Writing and is currently working on her second novel.