S. K. Kruse

S. K. Kruse’s debut short-story collection, Tales From the Liminal, was published by Deuxmers in 2021, followed by the Study Edition in 2025. Her work has appeared in a variety of literary magazines and has been longlisted for the John Steinbeck Award for Fiction. She is the founder of The Liminal Essay Contest and co-curator of The Liminality Project. Her forthcoming novel, Of Beginnings and Ends (Deuxmers, 2026), will be released September 8. She is a two-time prizewinner in the National League of American Pen Women’s Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition. She is the creator of Tell the Story of Your Soul, and available for presentations, workshops, retreats, classroom visits, and discussions exploring liminality, creativity, storytelling, and the life of the soul.

Available presentations and workshops include:

  • Betwixt & Between: Discovering the Gift of the Liminal

  • The Art of the Liminal

  • Tell the Story of Your Soul

  • Tales From the Liminal

  • Of Beginnings and Ends

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S. K. Kruse is a Wisconsin native and UW-Madison alumna. Today, she lives in the rolling hills of the Driftless Area, where she and her husband raised their eleven children.

Works that have had a significant influence on her life, thought, and writing in approximate chronological order include Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes, Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984, Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, Thomas A Kempis’s The Imitation of Christ, the New Jerusalem Bible, Eliot’s The Waste Land, Hugo’s Les Misérables, Bonhoeffer’s The Cost of Discipleship, Teilhard de Chardin’s The Phenomenon of Man, Moore’s Dark Nights of the Soul, Tolle’s The Power of Now, Nietzsche’s Parable of the Madman, The Birth of Tragedy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Dostoevsky’s Crime & Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Sartre’s No Exit, Hesse’s Steppenwolf and Demian, Feuerbach’s The Essence of Christianity, Buber’s I and Thou, Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus, Wright’s The Moral Animal, Tillich’s Dynamics of Faith and The Courage to Be, Carroll’s The Existential Jesus, Ricoeur’s The Symbolism of Evil, Emerson’s Self-Reliance, Underhill’s Mysticism, and Trungpa’s The Myth of Freedom.