Instructor, Writer & Creativity Sorceress

Nikki Kallio works in both fiction and nonfiction, earning an MFA from Goddard College in fiction, where she also served as nonfiction editor for the student literary journal Pitkin Review. She is the author of the short fiction collection Finding the Bones, Cornerstone Press, 2023, which includes her award-winning short stories “Geography Lesson” and “Spirit Box,” which were recognized by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters. Nikki’s essay “Cold Front,” which focused on the anxiety of living with a compromised immune system in a rural community during COVID-19, appeared in the anthology (Her)oics: Women’s Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic, Pact Press, 2021. Her work also has appeared in Midwestern Gothic, rawboned, Wisconsin People & Ideas and elsewhere. Nikki worked as a newspaper journalist and editor on both coasts before returning home to Wisconsin, where she is now a freelance writer, editor and instructor. You can find more about Nikki’s writing at nikkikallio.com.