Kyle Boelte is an American essayist and author. He was born in a small town in Western Kansas and grew up near Denver, Colorado.The Los Angeles Review of Books Author Page for Kyle Boelte
Boelte's book The Beautiful Unseen: Variations on Fog and Forgetting is about his brother's suicide, when they were both teenagers, as well as San Francisco fog.'The Beautiful Unseen,’ by Kyle Boelte, San Francisco Chronicle, 2/11/2015 The book received positive reviews in The San Francisco Chronicle ("one of the most haunting books ever written about the fragility of memory"), The Los Angeles Review of Books ("Boelte’s sure-footed prose makes The Beautiful Unseen a lovely journey"),Fog Chaser, The Los Angeles Review of Books, 2/09/2015 and Booklist ("Boelte conveys the deep, abiding sense of loss such tragedies inflict, yet softly, tenderly communicates the conflicting sensations of confronting memories, both lost and found").Booklist Review, Booklist Online, 2/01/2015 Its major themes include the impermanence of memory and the importance of nature, including wilderness, in our lives.How Nature Teaches Us to Grieve, Sierra, January/February 2015
Boelte's essays have been published in Zyzzyva,Reluctant Citizens, Zyzzyva, Volume 31, #1, Spring 2015 High Country News,Half-Blind Valley, High Country News, 2/02/2015 and Full Stop.Tie Your Own Rope, Full Stop, 1/13/2015 He was a finalist for the Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction in 2013.Announcing 2013 Contest Winners , Bellingham Review, 6/07/2015 His essay "Reluctant Citizens" was included in "The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016" and was cited as a Notable Essay in "The Best American Essays 2016".
Bibliography Kyle Boelte (2015) The Beautiful Unseen: Variations on Fog and Forgetting. Soft Skull Press.
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