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Kate Gies

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Memoir

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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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Average rating: 4.67 · 225 ratings · 63 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished: A Memoir of My Body 4.67 avg rating — 222 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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Code Noir: Fictions

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Kate Gies liked James Braun's review of The Trial: "I recently tried to re-read this many years after picking it up at 19. I saw something in it as a young man that I don't any more. There are some brilliant moments of absurdity, but they're buried under turgid, needlessly verbose prose. Joseph K now " Read more of this review »
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Quotes by Kate Gies (?)

“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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