# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Meet the Author - Kali White VanBaale
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 20 Feb, 2026 at 06:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Exploring marital roles, complex family legacies, abuse, and generational trauma, the interconnected characters and stories move through time and space, as VanBaale catches ordinary people in extraordinary moments of revelation.

​“Compelling, devastating, yet often bleakly funny, Release of Information explores the depths that lie behind every ‘Midwest nice’ smile.”—Sean Adams, author of The Thing in the Snow

“VanBaale writes beautifully . . . a fascinating network of lives.”—Amy Lee Lillard author of Exile in Guyville

Kali White VanBaale is the author of the novels Release of Information, The Monsters We Make, The Good Divide, and The Space Between.  She’s the recipient of an American Book Award, an Independent Publisher’s silver medal for general fiction, the Fred Bonnie Memorial First Novel Award, the Eric Hoffer Book Award for General Fiction, an Iowa Arts Council major artist grant, and the Great River Writer’s Retreat. This year, she was honored with the Iowa Author Award, presented by the Des Moines Public Library Foundation.  She’s also writes and publishes short stories and essays, is a regular contributor to the A&E Network Real Crime blog series and serves as the managing editor of the micro-essay journal The Past Ten.

Kali holds an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She’s a core faculty member in the Lindenwood University MFA in Writing Program and regularly teaches writing workshops at various conferences and festivals. In addition to writing and teaching, Kali is an advocate and state lobbyist for mental healthcare reform.

Born and raised on a dairy farm in southern Iowa, she now lives and writes on a quiet acreage outside Des Moines with her family.

In previous professional lives, Kali was a county case manager for mentally disabled adults and children, a substitute librarian, a gymnastics instructor, a childcare provider, a waitress, a jewelry counter attendant at Target, and spent one winter working on a Christmas tree farm, and one summer detasseling cornfields. She also lived in a remote Hungarian village for several weeks while volunteering on an organic vegetable farm.

Author Amy Lee Lillard will join Kali in conversation.  Amy is the author of Exile in Guyville, which won the 2022 BOA Editions Short Fiction Prize; A Grotesque Animal, from University of Iowa Press; and Dig Me Out, from Atelier26 Books. She is the co-creator of Broads and Books Productions, creating podcasts, publications, and presses. Her productions include Midwest Weird audio literary magazine, Fuzzy Memories Podcast, and the Wyrd Woman audio drama.
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Des Moines
- **state**: IA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 2629 Beaver Ave Ste S1, Des Moines, IA, United States, Iowa 50310
- **lat**: 41.61882
- **long**: -93.67224
- **full address**: 2629 Beaver Ave Ste S1, Des Moines, IA, United States, Iowa 50310

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- **organizer**: Beaverdale Books (https://allevents.in/org/beaverdale-books/7889531)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 20 Feb, 2026 at 06:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
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- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Beaverdale Books
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, festivals, performances, sports, workshops, theatre, entertainment, volunteering, gymnastics
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