Story Alchemy is an online writing lab that offers workshops, courses, and 1:1 on coaching to help you explore hidden narratives to write your memoir, essays, or work of creative or general nonfiction.Story Alchemy is also a writing practice that combines three essential elements: The Nature of Narrative, Mindful Awareness and the Craft of Writing. There are three ways to join Story Alchemy:Writing Workshops: Story Alchemy writing workshop will help you to unearth unexpected perspectives and generate valuable material for your memoir, personal essay or work of literary non-fiction.Book Writing Intensive: The Crucible Book Writing Intensive is for you if you are you seeking to join a community of writers to support you while you write your memoir or work of literary nonfiction and learn the path to publishing.1:1 Book Coaching: I am here to help you through every step of your book writing journey. You will receive clear guidance, support, inspiration, and accountability.

I’ve immersed myself in wildly different topics for months and sometimes years, from business, design, and finance to spirituality, Integral theory, and Tibetan Buddhism. I help clients go from a gem of an idea to the gold of a finished manuscript, essay, or speech. Ghostwritten articles have been placed in publications including Fast Company, Business Week, Rotman Design magazine, Harvard Business Review and more. Books have been accepted for representation with literary agents and gone on to publication.I have also served as an Editorial Director to companies and provide direction on establishing brand voice and writing design guidelines, web copy and PR materials, print collateral, and executive’s articles. Samples available upon request

When seventeen-year-old Jade Reynolds witnesses a violent clash between a protesting tree sitter and a local logger, she is forced to flee the California town she grew up in. Jade runs as far as she can from the battles that plague her home and from the mysteries of the redwood forest, but the ancient redwoods are embedded in her psyche—she feels their call even in the dark and forgotten back alleys of Portland, Oregon where she’s hiding out. She soon becomes entangled with a lovable misfit and a band of radical slackers, environmentalists, and anarchists, and finds herself living 100 feet high in the canopy of a redwood grove, trying to decide whose side she’s on: the logging community she’s known her entire life or the environmentalists who are risking their lives for the future of the forest. When choosing sides only makes matters worse, Jade turns to the ancient trees themselves—and the thread-thin web that connects us all.

Inspired by my novel, Tree Dreams, Tree Dreamers tag trees with dreams of the myriad ways we are connected to nature, to each other and to our future. Tree Dreamers’ tags share the values that sustain us all–kindness, wonder, inclusivity, stewardship, community, love. Together we dream of our place within what poet Mary Oliver calls ‘the family of things.’ We re-write our relationship with the natural world and a healthy future for all. Tags can be viewed at treedreams.netTree Dreams has been adapted for science, english, environmental ed and interdisciplinary classes. A generous grant from the Panta Rhea Foundation enabled the creation of standards-aligned lesson plans for K-8 and novel discussion guides for high school and college students and book groups.Tree Dreams: A Novel and tree tagging lesson plans are recommended environmental education resources by Project Learning Tree. And Tree Dreams has even gone on tour with the Tree Circus.

Creative editorial direction for innovation consultancy Ziba Design and its clients. Included establishing brand voice, writing print collateral, design guidelines, web copy and PR materials, and editing executive’s articles. Publications include Authenticity is Now, a book about the need for practicing authenticity in business.

At age twenty-three and fresh out of drama school, Kristin Kaye landed her dream job: to write and direct a Broadway show in New York City. Its title? The Celebration of the Most Awesome Female Muscle in the World, starring twenty-five of the world’s most muscular women. Her mandate? To turn The Celebration into a High Art Happening exalting women’s physical and intellectual strength.Kaye thought this was her chance to enter a whole new feminist arena, but in reality she was about to enter another world entirely: her carefully orchestrated artistic interludes would be sandwiched between skits involving white lace thongs, smoke machines, and a bodybuilder spinning by her neck. Kaye tells the whole story in this hilarious book, alternating between an account of directing the show, which builds to the disastrous climax of opening night, and reportage on women’s bodybuilding and the little-known sub-culture around it, including the use of steroids, the side business of strong women who wrestle men for money, and the judging controversy that threatens to split the sport in two. (Avalon/ Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2005. eBook released 2015)The history of women’s weight training rounds out this sassy, poignant memoir . - Utne ReaderNot long out of college and trying to figure out what to do with her life, Kristin Kaye found herself writing and directing a Broadway show about female bodybuilders. In telling the tale of this show and the women who were in its cast, she persuades us of their humanity while at the same time showing the less appealing aspects of women’s bodybuilding. Kaye tells her own story honestly and amusingly, but always keeps the bodybuilders at the center of the stage. - Oregon Book Awards Judge Jonathan Yardley