Still Floating: 40 Years of Pennywise contributor Kristin Dearborn

Kristin and Steve Van Samson are somehow not impressed with my 80s-album-cover-style author photo. But you WILL be impreesed with Kristin's essay, “When You Grow Up, Your Heart Dies: Memory and Growing Up in It."

Kristin went to college just outside of Derry, er, Bangor, and King's stories have been a part of her life for a long time. Her essay discusses childhood, memories, magic, and,,,the Satanic Panic. If that doesn't pique your curiosity, I can't help you.

Kristin's bio:

Kristin Dearborn is a life-long New Englander and horror writer, destined to write about anything that screams, squelches, or bleeds. Her first literary love was Michael Crichton. Her second, Stephen King. Dearborn grew up in Maine, and her Grandparents lived in Orono from before her birth to her grandmother’s passing in 2024. King was her graduation speaker at the University of Maine. Dearborn earned her M.F.A. in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University and has been on the horror scene since 2010. She’s the author of Faith of Dawn (2024) Downlines (2023) The Amazing Alligator Girl (2022) many short stories, and more. When she’s not unleashing a fresh new nightmare onto the page, Dearborn is probably searching for one. If she’s taking a break from all things blood-curdling, she’s likely scaling rock cliffs, hiking the northeast, hanging out with her pets, or gallivanting the globe.