Kali White is the author of the forthcoming THE MONSTERS WE MAKE (Crooked Lane Books, June 2020). Her second novel, THE GOOD DIVIDE (as Kali VanBaale), earned the Eric Hoffer Book Award for General Fiction, was shortlisted for the Hoffer Grand Prize, and was named an Indie Book Award finalist. Her debut novel, THE SPACE BETWEEN (as Kali VanBaale), earned an American Book Award, the Independent Publisher’s silver medal for general fiction, and the Fred Bonnie Memorial First Novelist Award. She's the assistant editor of the micro-essay series THE PAST TEN, which is being developed into a print anthology. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Coachella Review, The Chaffey Review, Past Ten, Nowhere Magazine, The Writer's Chronicle, Poets&Writers, The Writer Magazine, and various anthologies. She is the recipient of a State of Iowa Arts Council major artist grant and the Great River Writer's Retreat. Kali holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is a core faculty member in the Lindenwood University MFA in Creative Writing Program. She resides in Iowa with her family.