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An innovator and artist who works creatively in any available medium, Kristen Caven writes towards the good truth as herself while creatively embodying secret identities such as Renaissance Woman, KRS-10, Cowgirl Creative, The Bellevue Muse, and Garbage Miranda. Generous Muse supports the outpouring of her imagination and collaborative works.
Artist & Writer
Kristen Caven’s creative career began in high school where she illustrated books, designed t-shirts, and produced films and plays. She was a cartoonist in college, began dancing and modeling in her twenties, wrote screenplays and musicals in her thirties, and novels in her forties, when she also began speaking and teaching. She had her first art gallery showing at age 21, toured as a dancer, is known for her creative pranks. Approaching all of her challenges creatively, she blogs profusely and writes articles about parenting, psychology, health, humor, philosophy and creativity. Her lyrics, poetry, short stories and songs feature comically layered female characters in universal situations. Kristen’s offerings, from graphic novels to greeting cards to books on various topics, all aim to illuminate, enlighten, inspire, and amuse. Read more about her literary awards and publications here.
Speaker & Teacher
Starting her education at a Great Books school and finishing at a Women’s College, Kristen studied at various Art schools and holds a certificate in Applied Positive Psychology. As a lifelong associate of parenting thought leader Dr. Louise Hart, she understands how the child mind underlies all sophisticated expression. Rich life experiences have taught her that conversation builds community. The best part of expredutaining on her diversity of topics, to Kristen, is listening to the audience. (The best part of teaching dance is getting a hundred people to shake their butts.)
Publisher
Kristen is the founder of three publishing companies. Lifeskills Press (now closed) and Uplift Press both “rescued” several crucial books from obscurity and brought forth others into higher platforms. Little Pig Productions began as a joke with her creative husband based on his famous cartoon pig, evolved into a personal blog about their family life, and is now an outlet for art stuff. She has also been an agent of Spiraling Music since 1996.
Leader
Kristen is serving or has served on the boards of Peter Pan Cooperative Nursery School, Friends of Sequoia School, Bret Harte PTSA, Oakland Tech PTSA, The Heart of the Muse, Child-Friendly Initiative, and Oakland Parents Together. As director of The Zorgos Project she gave 3000 parenting books to Oaklanders. She is currently president of the Berkeley Branch of the California Writers Club.
Some of her best leadership, however, is in front of a crowd getting people up to dance.
But how do you pronounce her name?
“In my first memoir, I explore my true nature as a “Liberal Artist” in every sense: Liberal as in free-thinking, as in bountiful, and as in having to do with books.”
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