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Kaycee Nilson was born on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana near Great Falls to a Crow mother and a Cajun father. Kaycee was the youngest of 10 children and was raised in the Crow tradition until the age of 12 when her father moved the family into the bayous of Louisiana. Feeling like an outsider in both worlds, not fully Native American and not fully Cajun, Kaycee withdrew into herself and began to read. In Junior High School, her English Teacher entered one of her poems into the school contest and to her surprise, Kaycee won first place. This began Kaycee's love of writing. And on every scrap of paper she could find, she began to write. All of her Mother's Day Cards and Birthday Cards to her family were handwritten, and to this day, Kaycee's mother swears they are the best cards she ever received. |
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Even though writing was Kaycee's passion, her next favorite thing was listening to and reading ghost stories. The more she heard and read, the more the passion in her grew to write her own. Her first attempts were as many writers', silly and nonsensical. Over time, she got better and better. Then one day, she stopped writing when her first husband told her she would never get anywhere with it. For years she neglected her writing until her second husband found a box of her writings and encouraged her to write again. By this time she had three kids and she discovered that the more pain she went through reliving the past of her first marriage, the better her writing got. Soon the writing she once so loved became natural to her and her second husband took up the task of editing her writings. Working together as a team has given Kaycee the confidence she needed to return to the world of literature that she once loved. The world had better get ready for more gore from this lady that walked through pain to get to the happiness she discovered today. Currently Kaycee and her husband and their three wonderful children make their home in Illinois and at last Kaycee has found the peace and happiness she has searched for her entire life. This makes her life complete and her stories will come out faster the happier she is. |
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