Kailee Pedersen
THE MINIMALIST (St. Martin's, '26)
PASTORALE (Burnside Review '25)
SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS (St. Martin’s + Titan '24)
writer/opera singer/swe | 🏳️🌈🇨🇳 adoptee | she/her
rep: Paul Lucas @ Regal Hoffmann
kaileepedersen.com
- Had a really wonderful conversation with Haley Radke of @adopteeson.bsky.social about family, inheritance, SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS, Nebraska farm life, opera, and storytelling through an adoptee perspective in my upcoming novel THE MINIMALIST. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k... 🥚
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[Not loaded yet] - Reposted by Kailee PedersenWhat a spectacular list! @bloody-disgusting.com's list of most anticipated horror novels! @claymcleod.bsky.social @natcassidy.bsky.social @ericlarocca.bsky.social @rachelharrison.bsky.social @danielkraus.com @ronaldmalfi.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ydm8ydek
- "Essential reading." Thank you to @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social and @bloody-disgusting.com for including THE MINIMALIST in this most anticipated round up for 2026! 🎶🩸 bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3... @stmartinspress.bsky.social
- 🥚 for the adoptee feed! My current project doesn’t explicitly deal with the modern adoption industry but has themes of identity, patrimony, inheritance, and parental loss. Hope I can share more soon & I’m always proud to see my adoptee identity in my bio 🙂
- So unbelievably excited to share I'll be doing my first-ever residency at the Jan Michalski Foundation in Switzerland this summer! There I hope to finish my third novel, HELLS CANYON, a brutal & unflinching Western charting three generations of a Chinese American family on the frontier. 🤠 (1/4)
- THE MINIMALIST, my fleshy and gruesome classical music psychodrama, is now available to request on NetGalley! Thank you to everyone who has expressed interest already, making it one of the most-requested horror titles! Request here: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
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- Looks like I'll be doing five operas and at least one mini concert in 2026. Welp, there goes my free time. 😅
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- Looking to preorder a fleshy, gruesome classical music psychodrama for your 2026 TBR? Barnes & Noble Members get 25% off with code PREORDER25 and Premium Members an additional 10% off on preorders through January 1st! Preorder THE MINIMALIST here: bit.ly/46qFYGn
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- Reposted by Kailee PedersenJust read REMAINS Issue 3. Another great collection of short stories. Especially enjoyed #Snuffbot by Kailee Pedersen. And the first part of the new series Letters From New America by James Sallis was fun too. @remainsmagazine.bsky.social @kaileepedersen.bsky.social
- "I never stopped loving you... Never... Even in the darkest days, our hardest times, when you drank..." Returning to the Overlook to learn new music~ 🎶🔪🩸 #TheShining #Opera #Horror #PaulMoravec #MarkCampbell #StephenKing
- In 2025, my 2nd novel was accepted for publication. I also spent months on medical leave for long COVID, returned to my hometown for an author visit, somehow held down a job, and sang a lot of Mozart. I'm grateful for another year of writing, opera, and friends new & old. Here's my 2025 in review.
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- Thank you to @emilyhughes.bsky.social for including THE MINIMALIST in this upcoming 2026 horror roundup! I'm stoked to be bringing unhinged classical musicians, Asian adoptee issues, Jewish/queer composers, & the agony & ecstasy of opera to readers in August 2026. 😊🎵 Read here: tinyurl.com/3b4ded4r
- Reposted by Kailee Pedersenthe 2026 new horror list is FINALLY LIVE! please share with all your freakiest loved ones: readjumpscares.com/2026-new-hor...
- Honored to be in the top 100 Apple Music listeners of my teacher 😂 she is so iconic
- My Italian teacher told me I should try to expose myself to more Italian language passively, so I'm now playing Fallout: New Vegas in Italian to live out my spaghetti Western wasteland dreams.
- Delighted to have my second ever short story, the dark sci-fi "#SnuffBot", in this issue of Remains! Check out this issue for some wonderfully chilling work. Order here: remains.uk/products/iss... @remainsmagazine.bsky.social
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- Saw my novel SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS in the Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors at Bennett Martin Public Library & also accepted my Nebraska Book Award today! Shout out to @sowerbooksne.bsky.social and Out Nebraska for the swag 🙂 🏳️🌈
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- Tonight!
- Join me at Sower Books @sowerbooksne.bsky.social this Friday to discuss SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS! This is my first ever book event in my hometown and I'm beyond excited to be doing it at a wonderful indie bookstore. Can't wait to chat all things Midwestern, Gothic, and spooky! 👻🌽
- Join me at Sower Books @sowerbooksne.bsky.social this Friday to discuss SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS! This is my first ever book event in my hometown and I'm beyond excited to be doing it at a wonderful indie bookstore. Can't wait to chat all things Midwestern, Gothic, and spooky! 👻🌽
- I did my first ever school visit yesterday at my old high school in Nebraska. The students were so sweet and asked really thoughtful questions. I hope they feel encouraged to pursue their artistic dreams, in whatever form they may come, and I'm excited for what the future holds for them. 😊
