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Kristie Helms', a southerner who keeps moving further north, has had her work appear in Utne, The New York Press, and in a string of un-bylined corporate brochures and newsletters that stretch from Nashville to New York City. Helms has studied creative writing with authors Donna Minkowitz and Toni Amato. Her online diary earned a 2001 Best Writing Award from Diarist.net. In her free time, she updates her current blog at dishitupbaby.com and volunteers as a community host at the Utne Cafe and for Howard Rheingold's Brainstorms. -- from Saints & Sinners
Dish It Up, Baby (2004) -- Finalist 2004 Lambda Literary Lesbian Debut Fiction Awards
Traces twenty-something heroine through childhood in rural Kentucky to her first job in Manhattan, and finally to Boston as she searches for true love, a cubicle near the window and the perfect shade of lipstick.