Loren Kleinman's poetry has appeared in literary journals such as Drunken Boat, The Moth, Domestic Cherry, Blue Lake Review, Columbia Journal, Stony Thursday Anthology (Arts Council Ireland) LEVURE LITTÉRAIRE, Nimrod, Wilderness House Literary Review, and more. She was the recipient of the Spire Press Poetry Prize (2003), was a 2000, 2003, and 2015 Pushcart Prize nominee, and was a 2004 Nimrod/Pablo Neruda Prize finalist for poetry.

Her second collection of poetry, The Dark Cave Between My Ribs was released in March 2014 (Winter Goose Publishing), and was an Amazon Top 100 bestseller in Women's Poetry and chosen as one of the best poetry books of the first half of 2014 by Entropy Magazine. Poems from The Dark Cave were also nominated for the 2015 Pushcart Prize. She is the author of Indie Authors Naked (IndieReader Publishing, 2014), which was an Amazon Top 100 bestseller in Journalism in the UK and USA. Her third collection of poetry Breakable Things released via Winter Goose Publishing March 2015.

Her fourth collection of poetry (prose poems), Stay with Me Awhile, released April 2016 via Winter Goose Publishing and her debut novel, This Way to Forever will release with Evatopia Press late August 2016. She recently finished a memoir The Woman with a Million Hearts published by BlazeVOX, and is currently working on her second novel Self, Help.

Kleinman is also working in collaboration with Nettles Artists Collective to produce the full production A House of Skin and Bone, which is inspired by her poetry collection The Dark Cave Between My Ribs. She wrote the short film, Suffering Is the Easy Part, which premiered at the Manhattan Film Festival and won the ASIFA EAST award for Best Writing.

Her personal essays appeared in Good Housekeeping, Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, and Woman's Day.
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  • JoinedMay 8, 2013




Stories by Loren Kleinman
The Woman with a Million Hearts by LorenKleinman
The Woman with a Million Hearts
Nothing is sexier than a woman who has learned to love and respect herself, and that's why The Woman With a M...
This Way to Forever by LorenKleinman
This Way to Forever
Sara Brody thought she had met her soulmate in Tad Bolak, a charming exchange student. Their whirlwind romanc...
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Breakable Things by LorenKleinman
Breakable Things
After the fracture, after the breaks in the surface, there is always light. Breakable Things is a testament t...