Welcome!

My name is Anneliese Kamola (she/her pronouns). I am an author, developmental editor, and writing coach living in Bellingham, WA on the traditional land of the Lummi and Nooksack people.

I have studied storytelling and the creative process for over 25 years via writing, editing, and publication; oral storytelling; theater production and performance; psychology, somatics, and trauma studies; and mindfulness and dance. My writing and storytelling explore reoccuring themes of the body, lineage, womanhood, healing, and the wild. I am currently a candidate for an MFA in Creative Writing at Western Washington University. My current obsessive questions are: Which stories do I choose to tell differently, and why? How do I decolonize myself without appropriation? How can writing be used to create spaces—literal and figurative—where possibilities can become real? What is underneath all the noise?

I will be taking select clients this summer; please contact me in late April/early May for interest.

Publication & Performance

WORKA in Progress:

• Counter-Curses and Love Spells: A Daughter’s Memoir This memoir explores a daughter’s journey to her ancestral homelands in Germany, Poland, Sweden, and Norway, as she grapples with questions of intergenerational trauma, healing, and the power of words. (Creative Non-Fiction)

• Lovely Hands Beckoned by grief and the sound of her daughter’s voice in the desert wind, a mother journeys to find Daudeta—the witch who collects the hands of the dead. (Weird Fiction/Folktale)

• The Song of Teeny-Tiny Teeny-Tiny, a half-flame-half-girl, sets out with her friends—The Journey Wo’an, Catedra, The Bound Warrior, Crow Woman, and Tender Tender—to recover the last missing story. (Fantasy)

Personal publications:

• Blog, ongoing.

• True Stories: The Narrative Project, Vol. 5. Contributing Anthology Author, Underwear, Socks, and A Watch. Release date November, 2022.

• True Stories: The Narrative Project, Vol. 4. Contributing Anthology Author, Ave Maria. 2021.

• True Stories: The Narrative Project, Vol. 3. Contributing Anthology Author, Something To Remember Me By. Release Date November 2020.

• True Stories: The Narrative Project, Vol. 2 Contributing Anthology Author, Questions. January 2020.

• True Stories: The Narrative Project, Vol. 1 Contributing Anthology Author, Arriving. February 2019.

• Contributing Writer to Inkspeak Magazine, WWU Fairhaven Literary Magazine. 2010.

written, produced, and performed:

• Holding Up Her Part of the Sky: Stories of Strong Women from Around the World Two-Woman Storytelling Show with Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor. 2015.

• Chekov In Love Viewpoints Ensemble Cast, directed by Drue Robinson. 2013.

• Filling the Void One-Woman Theater/Storytelling/Dance Performance. Wrote, produced, performed. 2013.

• This Is My Body One-Woman Theater/Storytelling Performance. Wrote, produced, performed. 2011.

• Orcas Island Storytelling Festival Company Storyteller. 2009.