ARTIST & Author

About Me

I’ve disappointed and bewildered friends, family, and colleagues with shifts in career direction more than once, curious and in love with the adrenaline rush of risk and change. I’ve fallen in love with places, too––Australian bush ringing with dawn birdsong, glacial peaks, Roman streets. Every shift made perfect sense to me. What does this have to do with my writing novels? Odd travel suggestions, apparent errors, and seemingly pointless detours lead to astonishing views, and every stumbling step offers a story. There are no dead-ends until you’re, well, dead, and even that’s only a rumor.

ARTIST & Author

About Me

I’ve disappointed and bewildered friends, family, and colleagues with shifts in career direction more than once, curious and in love with the adrenaline rush of risk and change. I’ve fallen in love with places, too––Australian bush ringing with dawn birdsong, glacial peaks, Roman streets. Every shift made perfect sense to me. What does this have to do with my writing novels? Odd travel suggestions, apparent errors, and seemingly pointless detours lead to astonishing views, and every stumbling step offers a story. There are no dead-ends until you’re, well, dead, and even that’s only a rumor.

Kristina Bak

Author Bio

I did the late 60s as a Reed College dropout, a commercial art student, and a wannabe Seattle hippie, country girl lost in the city. Taking to heart Kurt Vonnegut’s advice when he wrote “Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God,” I bussed north to Bellingham and enrolled in the Western Washington art department. One of many transformative experiences in the next five years was backpacking in the magnificent North Cascades. Another was flying high over the handlebars of my bike, landing hard, my face skidding across pavement. Face healed, it was time to take charge of my life with the mantra “salvation in action,” no time to waste. Easy? No, of course not, this is life, not fantasy, but no regrets. Kurt Vonnegut was right. A couple of hemispheres, several continents, lots of friends and teachers, a wonderful daughter, and a beloved husband later, I’m back home in Bellingham.

Kristina Bak

Author Bio