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Kristine Langley Mahler

Kristine Langley Mahler is the author of three nonfiction books, TEEN QUEEN TRAINING, A CALENDAR IS A SNAKESKIN, and CURING SEASON: ARTIFACTS. Her work has been supported by the Nebraska Arts Council and Art at Cedar Point and thrice named Notable in Best American Essays. A memoirist experimenting with the truth on the suburban prairie, Kristine makes her home outside Omaha, Nebraska. She is the director of Split/Lip Press.

Essays

Kristine Langley Mahler

Dec 4, 2025

Foxglove

Foxglove grows in bells, a stalk with different chambers. When foxglove bells are plucked and dried, crumbled and served in a tea, they enter the ventricles of the heart. Foxglove works like a remedy. The primary principle of homeopathy is…
Features & Reviews, Mini-Interviews

Kristine Langley Mahler

Oct 8, 2020

The Rumpus Interview Mini-Interview Project: Melissa Wiley

“All evolution—in every sense—entails loss, the need to let things go.”
Features & Reviews, Reviews

Kristine Langley Mahler

Oct 10, 2018

My Nebraska is Only One Nebraska: Erica Trabold’s Five Plots

Five Plots wades into the enigmatic relationships between family and memory, where truth is seemingly as placid as the Platte River but re-examination causes a re-route.
Rumpus Original

Kristine Langley Mahler

Sep 20, 2017

I Will Not Die for You

Each bug in the water is one less bug on my fruit, I tell myself, ignoring the truth: under the soil, another is born.

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Kristine Langley Mahler

Foxglove

The Rumpus Interview Mini-Interview Project: Melissa Wiley

My Nebraska is Only One Nebraska: Erica Trabold’s Five Plots

I Will Not Die for You