shot by photographer Ryan Marshall of Pacing the Panic Room (more here from the streets of Soho)
I live on the far eastern coastline of Nova Scotia, Canada, where I was born.
Despite being convinced that parenthood would be a barfy-smelling, cheerio-crunching, sweatpant-wearing purgatory, my husband Justin and I made a baby born in January 2005. His name is Evan. Happily recruited into the baby gulag, I became pregnant again, this time with identical twin boys. In May 2007 they were born three months early. One survived and one did not. Liam, who lived for six weeks, whispers to us every day. His mirror-brother Ben loves cupcakes, lego, and Evan.
After Liam died I launched a collaborative blog for babylost parents called Glow in the Woods, a retreat and now a warm, embracing and entirely cherub-free community. I spend a lot of time chasing light, and write for Shutter Sisters as a founding contributor. I also sell fine art prints and tell stories with my camera. Yours, if you like.
In November 2009 my first novel was published — The Dread Crew: Pirates of the Backwoods, a book January Magazine calls "a spirited tale, gorgeously rendered." The Dread Crew has been nominated for a Hackmatack Award in Nova Scotia and a Red Cedar Award in British Columbia, and is now in its third printing. The sequel is on its way.
Why sweet | salty? Because that’s what it is.
Sweet Salty isn’t your stereotypical mommy blog; it’s more high art than slice-of-life. Yet despite the many ways Canadian blogger, author, and photographer Kate Inglis strays outside the lines, she’s managed to gain a large, loyal, and growing readership within the mom-blogging genre. With the gorgeously literary writing she published on her blog in the months following the death of her infant son Liam in 2007, Inglis became the voice for many previously voiceless grieving mamas, articulating the complexities of mother-loss in a way that no writer had ever done before. In addition to her writing at Sweet Salty, Kate Inglis is one of the founding mothers of Glow in the Woods, a warm online space for babylost parents.
~ Babble ranked sweet|salty #10 Babble Best (overall), #6 Best Written, and #10 Best Design for 2011.
In an interview at Canadian Bookshelf, Book Madam Julie Wilson and I talk about the process of writing The Dread Crew, how the setting of Nova Scotia informs the book, and the best gnome non-fiction.
Find the seaweed & solomon gundy glossary, tin-can telephones, and another blog about writing and the book at my author site.
Another interview at The Daily Grommet gets into the process of writing the book, and here, my friend Richard asks me about bodice-ripping muscles, music that cracks you in two, and what's on my iPod. At an interview at Mamapop, BHJ wonders about opium, and I wonder back.
Go to the Canadian Weblog Awards for more about me, public writing, diplomatic immunity, spiritual practice, and for the most salient piece of advice I could muster for aspiring bloggers.
