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KRISTIN OHLSON On BACKSTORY, Saturday April 26th - 4-6pmCST

Monday, April 21, 2008

In "STALKING THE DIVINE", a Kristin Ohlsen attends Christmas Mass at an old city church seeking holiday cheer and comfort in the trappings of a faith she abandoned more than 30 years ago. Instead, she finds a tiny threadbare congregation and a nearly forgotten group of aging, cloistered, contemplative nuns with a mission to pray day and night for the sorrows of the world. Thus begins a three-year dialogue between the nuns and Kristin Ohlson, who struggles to understand how these women gave up the world--and continue to do so joyfully--for their faith. Ultimately, Ohlson finds that talking to the nuns becomes a way of opening herself up to the possibility of the sacred--which is, in its way, an answered prayer. And so begins the STALKING THE DIVINE book which is one of the best book titles I've ever read in my life. (Which also just happened to have been the Winner of the American Society of Journalists and Authors' 2004 General Nonfiction Award.)

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!

Ms. Ohlsen is also the co-Author of Kabul Beauty School, An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil. BUT WAIT - THERE'S MORE!

Kristin is a FREELANCE JOURNALIST, essayist and fiction writer based in Cleveland, Ohio. As a journalist, she is a general interest writer and almost no topic escapes her curiosity. Her articles have spanned many subjects, from zebrafish bioengineered to glow in the presence of pollutants to feminist philanthropy to bluebird preservation efforts. She's published articles and essays in the New York Times, Salon.com, Ms, the Oprah Magazine, Discover, New Scientist, Gourmet, Vegetarian Times, More, Food & Wine, Tin House, Poets & Writers, Sojourners, Industry Week, and many other publications. She's also published fiction in literary magazines, including West Branch, the Indiana Review and online at Reading Divas and Verbsap.

Tune in Saturday as we try to discover just how she manages to do it all in the middle of real life in a real world.

And you know it will all be part of a two hour blast with GREAT MUSIC, GREAT STORIES, AND GREAT COMPANY! Thanks for being an ever increasing part of the BACKSTORY family.

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