Kit West

Kit West grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and was educated at the University of Missouri, Columbia and the University of Colorado at Boulder where she received an M.A. in Literature and Creative Writing. Thereafter she lived for fifteen years in Latin America and upon her return she published three collections of poetry, taught creative writing at the college level and founded and acted as senior editor for the non-profit poetry press, Green Fuse Poetic Arts. Her poetry publications include: Scimitar Dreams, The BoneTrain and Riddle. She lives in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico where she owns and runs the English language bookstore Abuelita Books with her husband Yaakov. Lion Tamer is her first novel.

Cover art by Jonathan Bennetts