Biography
Rose Marie Kinder is a writer,
editor, and teacher. She earned her degrees at the University of Arizona at
Tucson. After receiving her Ph.D. in 1990, she returned to the Midwest to
teach at the University of Central Missouri (UCM), where she became editor of
the then annual, in-house, student publication Pleiades (now
Pleiades: a Journal of New Writing), and began its transition to a
semiannual, national journal. Kinder developed and coordinated the creative
writing program at UCM. She is currently editor emeritus of Pleiades,
reads fiction for that journal, and is advisory editor with New Letters
and with BkMk Press (University of Missouri, Kansas City). She continues to
teach at the university level, and leads workshops, discussions, and programs
in various venues.
Kinder's short fiction has appeared primarily in literary
journals, most recently in Notre Dame Review: The First Ten Years. Two
collections of her stories have been published, A Near Perfect Gift (U
of Michigan Press 2005) and Sweet Angel Band (Helicon Nine Editions
1991). Her first novel, An Absolute Gentleman (Counterpoint 2007), is a
literary suspense—a psychological study of a serial killer.
Kinder's consistent hobbies are music, including the history of
instruments, natural science, study of witchcraft and herbalists, languages,
numismatics (Greek and Roman coins), acrostics, sudoku, drama and dance. She
currently resides in Warrensburg,
Missouri.