About Kirsten
Author Bio
Who Is Kirsten?
Kirsten Schuder’s favorite writing projects make a positive impact upon social issues. Kirsten has written hundreds of parenting and mental health articles and has edited thousands as an expert mental health professional. She fetched an international award with her first co-authored book, Farming Industrial Hemp: Not Your Daddy’s Tobacco where their book was instrumental in raising awareness of the dangers of growing industrial hemp in unsafe conditions and influencing Congress in growing guidelines for the budding industry. Her second book, Schooling Your Kids Through a Pandemic: Your Step-by-step, Guilt-free Guide to Remote Learning, Homeschooling, or Somewhere in Between, helps parents navigate the difficulties of remote learning. She also authored a fiction series, Inside Dweller, published by Black Rose Writing September 14, 2023. She serves as the Vice President of Apex Literary Management, a growing boutique literary agency, and loves long subtitles. Finally, she writes whatever the heck she wants in Kirsten’s Short Attention Span on Medium.
Personal Life
Kirsten has been writing most of her life. She began with a picture book with flowers, houses, and rainbows when she was in preschool and asked her mother to publish it. (She did not.) She worked her way up to writing poetry in the middle of the night and waking her parents up to share it. (She was a joy as a child.) She moved onto articles published in print magazines in her twenties and has been published in every decade she has been an adult.
A recent widow, Kirsten resides in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia with her kids and a myriad of pets. She has been telecommuting for almost a decade and homeschooling her kids for over a decade. Presently, she works with various online platforms, writes her own books, and runs Apex Literary Management, a growing boutique literary agency.
Awards and recognition
Best Industrial Hemp Grower and Consultancy, Mid-Atlantic 2019
Prose Contest Winner
The short story “Go!” won a contest on Prose and then was presented to Simon and Schuster.
"Go!" was featured in the Potato Soup Journal's Best of 2022 Anthology
"Never worry about being impressive. Pursue your love and passion, and you will shine in the presence of others."
Kirsten Schuder
Need a Speaker for Your Upcoming Event?
Kirsten is available for events as an expert in the following areas:
Writing
Kirsten has industry experience both in representing bestselling and award-winning authors as a literary agent. She has an eye for a good story, and also knows through interning with a small publishing house and her own writing how to craft an engaging, exciting, and thrilling story regardless of the genre plus successful queries and anything else an author should know before giving professional authorship a go.
Academic Integrity
Kirsten has professional experience as a tutor and certified reading instructor. She has conducted a years-long research project about cheating in the digital age. She has consulted college professors all over the country about how to detect essay mill and AI-written papers.
Kirsten’s seminars center upon her experience with essay mills, all the different ways students can use the internet to cheat, and most of all, how students are using AI to write their college materials for them. In addition, Kirsten provides strategies to ensure academic integrity within colleges and universities so they do not become mere diploma mills.