Kim Cope Tait
An English/history teacher of 27+ years and a yoga/meditation instructor of nearly 20, Kim is currently writing full time. Trained in the Amherst Writers & Artists method of leading writing workshops and with a Master of Fine Arts in Writing, Kim has also led teacher workshops for the past 10 years. She is available to lead creative writing workshops for students, teachers, and aspiring writers of all ages and from all walks of life. She loves doing readings and school visits, as well. She now lives on the Otago Peninsula with her husband; when she’s not writing, and in the interim between visits from her two grown sons, Kim spends time gardening, surfing, 'yoga-ing', and practicing Reiki.
Genre:
- Fiction
- Poetry
- Young Adult
Skills:
- Academic Writing
- Competition Judging
- Editing
- Freelance Writing
- Long-Term Placement (schools, universities)
- Novelist
- Poetry Readings
- Print Media Writing (magazines/newspapers)
- Readings
- Readings (adults)
- Reviews
- Screenwriting
- Tutoring
- Website Content
- Works
Branch:
Otago/Southland
Location:
Dunedin
Publications:
Kealaula
When Kealaula and her little sister Virgilia are sent to Hawaiʻi Island to learn the secret strand of their mother's story, and by extension their own, she learns much more than the origin of her own name. Full of endings and beginnings, Kealaula is a coming-of-age story about growing up, opening up, and letting go.
Inertia
It is always those who are too light, too bright for this planet that seem to make their exits early. We concede that it could be in part because they are immortalized in the bloom of their youth, too soon to make the mistakes the rest of us make sooner or later and live to regret, but we wonder, somehow, if it isn't something more than that.
Shadow Tongue
Shadow Tongue is a collection of poems that whispers what aches, speaks what saves, and sings the overlap between the two.
Bend the Blue Sky
Is it possible to carry the suffering of our ancestors at a cellular level? To be locked into cycles of grief and the absence of resiliency...just by being born to those who have gone before us? Meg Carroll considers these questions as she weaves the story of her estranged grandmother Violet and her own into a ghostly tapestry that will either save or be the end of her. Either it is possible to change things as they are, or Meg is fated to manifest the madness of her raven-haired grandmother and the rest of the women in the Carroll clan. Meg will live into the answers to her questions and know herself as ultimately powerful--or be the next in line to fall.