kaci skiles law

My short horror story, Bereaved, has made it into the final 5 out of 49 stories for Alien Buddha's House of Horrors Showdown! That means if it wins, I'll get 400 dollars! I've invited all my friends to Alien Buddha's Facebook page to vote. I comment here when the poll is up. I'd be forever...

My chapbook, Smile, Child, is available from Bottlecap Press! Smile, Child is a brief portrait of growing up in a broken home and society where abuse is normalized. Each poem illustrates a different aspect of what it means to limp through life carrying generational trauma and suffering major...

I entered into Button Poetry's short form contest and heard back today I am one of the winners! I figured it was a long shot, I can't believe it, but I'm grateful I won and didn't talk myself out of submitting for the hell of it. I will share what I sent as soon as they post it!

Book Interview: Kaci Skiles Laws on 'Summer Storms' Kaci Skiles Laws wrote her first haiku in third grade about a giraffe. Years later, she wrote her first accomplished poem about her barn cat, Tinkerbell, who later died after getting attacked by her brother’s Jack Russell. The day her mom came...