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Kate Gies is a writer and educator living in Toronto. She teaches creative nonfiction and expressive arts at George Brown College. Her fiction, non-fiction, and poetry have been published in The Malahat Review, The Humber Literary Review, Hobart, Minola Review, the Conium Review, and the Best Canadian Essays 2024 Anthology.

Her memoir, It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished, about her childhood medical experiences related to a missing ear is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster Canada in 2025

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	It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished: A Memoir of My Body 4.65 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Conium Review: Vol. 5 by Samantha Duncan (Goodreads Author), Jessica Roeder, Liz Kellebrew (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Because shame is hard to scrub from the bones.
Because trauma doesn’t end; it echoes.
Because I wanted to end this story with me in my thirties, looking in the mirror and loving my body, but that’s not how this goes.
Because true stories ping between crisis and resolution, back and forth and back again, peace and horror, peace and horror.”
― Kate Gies, It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished: A Memoir of My Body

tags: body-neutrality, medical-trauma, shame, trauma

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