Kate Gies

A little late to the bluesky party, but thrilled to have It Must Be Beautiful on the list of nominations for the Evergreen Award. Thank you thank you to @forestofreading.bsky.social <3

I’d send my love to all the kids who feel like weirdos. I've been meaning to ask Kate Gies

I dearly love Kathryn Mockler's interview with my wife, @kategies.bsky.social about shame and trauma and all the ways we find to heal
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/id-send-my...

Rewriting a Story About Medical Trauma: Kate Gies joins me on Let’s Talk Memoir.🧡

@kategies.bsky.social

Here’s the episode: ronitplank.com/2025/07/08/l...

We gave helium to a parrot to hear if it talked funny but it just floated to the ceiling.

If you have a memoir struggling to get out of you, @kategies.bsky.social shares her own experience and advice this Thursday, courtesy of the Baltimore Public Library. events.bcpl.info/event/13043765

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Very proud to see @kategies.bsky.social on Wordstock Sudbury's list to honour International Womens' Day!
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What a great turnout for our “Can you outrun a bear?” three-mile fun run! For the sixth consecutive year, the answer was no.

Thank you CBC books for including It Must Be Beautiful on the list of 30 Canadian Books to read this winter!

we all have that one knee we drew a face on and that sings to us when we're sad

Me: A sandwich is a book made of bread that tells the story of the ingredients
Bank clerk: *frantically pressing the silent alarm*

Shout out to my amazing cover designer @michelvrana.com. I couldn't have asked for a more beautiful cover <3

I have had so many compliments on my book cover! Thank you for creating such a beautiful cover for me. It is better than anything I could have imagined <3

I mentioned I used to make puppets with my knees as a kid, and someone just asked me how i did that. So, here you go

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I got to talk to the amazing @mattgalloway.bsky.social from CBC's The Current and you can listen to our conversation here.

Such a great honour to be part of such an amazing festival!

I Was Born Missing an Ear. To the World, It Was a Problem to Fix | The Walrus Surgeons promised to make me whole. No one asked what I wanted

This is brilliant from @kategies.bsky.social.
I “should” have two more major surgeries but they’re not medically necessary and I don’t want them. From my pov as a parent… I don’t 100% know what I’d do in this situation if doctors were advising the same. Confronting! thewalrus.ca/i-was-born-m...

Oh wow! Yeah, totally surreal. Nice to meet you! Hope you enjoy the book!

I Was Born Missing an Ear. To the World, It Was a Problem to Fix - Longreads "Surgeons promised to make me whole. No one asked what I wanted."

"A man of good intentions, who wanted only to build me the best ear he could. A man who, despite his efforts at kindness, was still the man who sliced into me while I was asleep."

@kategies.bsky.social @thewalrus.ca

@kategies.bsky.social’s childhood was characterized by one familiar routine: a train ride into Toronto, a hot-fudge sundae at the Eaton Centre, a small gift from her mother, then the Hospital for Sick Children for surgery. thewalrus.ca/i-was-born-missi...

Thanks so much!

This interview with @kategies.bsky.social is on the radio TODAY!! (or on your podcast platform of choice, if you prefer to listen on your own schedule)

Author Kate Gies on her reading habits and why she considers this one classic book ‘deeply problematic’ The writer of "It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished" answers our author questionnaire.

Up online today from the Toronto Star - books I love, the one classic I really don't.

I Was Born Missing an Ear. To the World, It Was a Problem to Fix | The Walrus Surgeons promised to make me whole. No one asked what I wanted

Highly recommend this excerpt from the new memoir by @kategies.bsky.social

“With Uncle Louie, I became two bodies: the one I experienced and the one he measured.”

Out today! My interview with @thestar.com where I talk about lots of things, including how vulnerability and variability in bodies is the very essence of humanness.

Thank you so much!!

Tomorrow you can listen to my interview with the brilliant @mattearoach.bsky.social on CBC Radio's Bookends With Mattea Roach.

Hello! An excerpt of my memoir is up at the Walrus today!

Thanks so much, Susana!

Thank you so much!!

Book cover of IT Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished on sale today

On this official pub date of It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished, a reminder that while we're distracted by trade talk, Trump is stripping away the rights of those with marginalized bodies. Stay vigilant people.