Kirsten Eve Beachy

Kirsten Eve Beachy lives with her husband Jason Alderfer, twin daughters, Sophie the cat, and a half-dozen unruly hens in Briery Branch, Virginia, where she writes about motherhood, disability, and changelings. Kirsten received degrees in Philosophy & Theology and Theater from Eastern Mennonite University and an MFA in Creative Writing from West Virginia University.

Kirsten also edited the anthology Tongue Screws and Testimonies: Poems, Stories, and Essays Inspired by the Martyrs Mirror (Herald Press, 2010) and co-chaired Mennonites Writing VI: Solos and Harmonies, a bi-national writing conference at EMU (2012). Her stories, poems, and essays appear in Shenandoah, Wrath-Bearing Tree, The Cresset, Center for Mennonite Writing Journal, The Tusculum Review, Relief: a Quarterly Christian Expression, Rhubarb, Dreamseeker Magazine, and three anthologies: Hint Fiction (Norton, 2010), Mennonite Mothering (Demeter, 2013), and On Mothering Multiples: Complexities and Possibilities (Demeter, 2016).

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