Riley Kilmore
Bewildering Stories biography
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Having never been able to settle on what I wanted to be when I grew up (still growing), I’ve dipped my toe in many ponds. I’ve taught dance, devoted several decades to the fire service, was one of the first women police officers in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and ran as an EMT with an ambulance service for a decade. I’ve been a homeschool mom, forklift operator, lifeguard, and fought wildland fire for the feds in Utah, Idaho, and Florida.
More recently, I earned my MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University (my undergraduate degree, from the same school, is in theatre performance).
My first national fiction credit was having my tale, The Could-Have Bin, published serially in GRIT. After that, a number of literary magazine credits and anthology inclusions followed: Lynx Eye Literary Journal, The Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Like Sunshine After Rain (Raw Dog Screaming Press), Beacons of Tomorrow (Tyrannosaurus Press), Eye Contact, Cogzine , as well as Calliope’s Collection of Mystical Mayhem and I’m Not the Villain; I’m Misunderstood (Wild Ink Publishing).
My poetry (mostly published under my pseudonym, garrie keyman) has been published by Sun Rising Poetry Press (Cosmic Brownies Literary Mama: Readings for the Maternally Inclined Coming of Age Reach of Song Ourania’s Orrery of Imagination.
My debut novel, Shay the Brave , a middle-grade fantasy, is due out January 2024 from Wild Ink Publishing. You can also read and subscribe to my weekly substack ponderings here.
Once upon another lifetime I studied in France, leaped from an airplane or two, and sailed the world aboard the SS Universe (Semester at Sea Program). These days, I and my husband of 36 years live in a mountainside cabin amid the sequestered hills of south-central Pennsylvania’s Appalachian region where we care for a multitude of critters, mostly of the four-legged variety, now that our six kids have flown the coop.
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