ABOUT KRISTIN MA ELLEFSEN

I was an architect for several years, before I changed course in 2008 and became more interested in the inner spaces than the physical ones.

In 2008, I initiated the project Esviken - room for silence. You can read more about it under the tab «ROOM FOR SILENCE».

During that period I became interested in religious metaphors, e.g. how a country in a religious text is not a physical country but a timeless inner mental landscape, available to everyone. This is still close to my heart. In the long run, I will publish texts and hold workshops on the subject.

I have my own small publishing house, StillSpace Publishing. Previously, I published books such as Mennesket er usynlig, by Arne Øgaard, today the syllabus at Steiner University College. Siste Natt, by Tebrizli Memmed Rza, published with support from the foundation Fritt Ord. In the sequel, I will only publish my own texts. The first is the book of poems, slowly she stokes the reflection.

In 2012-13, I published monthly electronic Poetry Letters in Norwegian and English. These were my answer poems to the author Coleman Barks Rumi poems. The letters were sent to readers in Norway, Germany, England and the United States. The project was agreed by Barks, who visited me in 2011 (also an eager reader of the letters).

I have since the eighties been a writer, besides my other occupations, e.g. as a journalist in Morgenbladet, as an editor for the magazine HERBA, as a writing consultant for ARNEBERG FORLAG and as a freelance writing consultant.

Since 2016, I have worked as a lecturer at the intermediate level in primary school.