Author Description

I dreamt you were a crow outside my window on a gray-white cloud, a black boomerang returning as a bird. Kaci Skiles Laws new collection of poetry and prose, Summer Storms, is "for the child that dies inside us all. It is slow, everything gradual" (from "I Tell Him I Will Never Eat Him"). Summer Storms begins reflecting on motherhood and how the author's relationships changed once she became a mother. The highs and lows and family dysfunction are duly noted before the reader goes bouncing back to a place in time when the author was just an observer of the adult world and adult things. "Kaci Skiles Laws is a skilled poet and prose writer who's every line uses unexpected word play to uncover what lies beneath that interesting rock on the shoulder of a dirt road; a road many of us wish to avoid." - City of Fredericton Poet Laureate Jordan Trethewey, Author of Unexpected Mergers Kaci Skiles Laws is a closet cat-lady and creative writer who reads and writes voraciously in the quiet moments between motherhood and managing Crohn's Disease. She grew up on a small farm in a Texas town alongside many furry friends, two sisters, and two brothers. She has known tragic loss too well, and her writing is a reflection of the shadows lurking in her psyche.