ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
Forrester, Kathleen. “Beyond the Animacy Divide with We Are Water Protectors: A Guiding Story for Kin-Making in Fraught Times,” in Children’s Literature, Culture, and Pedagogies: Multidisciplinary Entanglements, edited by Terry Doughty et al. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
Forrester, Kathleen. “Making Home: The Queer Ecological Possibilities of Children’s Picturebooks,” in Children’s Literature in Place: Surveying the Landscapes of Children’s Culture, edited by Željka Flegar and Jennifer Miškec. Routledge, 2024.
Forrester, Kathleen. “Nature Unnested: Kin and Kind in Switched Egg Children’s Stories,” in Silence and Silencing in Children’s Literature, edited by Mia Österlund et.al. Makadam Publishing, 2021.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Forrester, Kathleen. “Nature Unnested: Kin and Kind in Switched Egg Children’s Stories,” Barnboken: Journal of Children’s Literature Research, vol. 43, 2020, pp. 1-20.
Forrester, Kathleen. “Kinship and the Queer Perversions of Six-Dinner Sid and Else-Marie and Her Seven Little Daddies: Imagine (Un)Doing Family.” Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, vol. 8, no. 2, 2017, pp. 119-141.
Forrester, Kathleen and Judith Salman. “Felt Knowledge in Michael Kusugak’s Picture Books.” Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature, vol. 54, no. 1. 2016, pp. 10-17.
CREATIVE FICTION for CHILDREN
My 2012 short story, The Flood won the Katherine Paterson Prize for Middle Grade Writing. It was published in Hunger Mountain: VCFA Journal for the Arts, The Prizewinner Issue, 2014.
Judge Kathy Appelt wrote:
Told from the alternating voices of a flood survivor and a boy who was drowned, this provocative story draws the reader in and won’t let go. In stunningly beautiful prose, we are swept into the twining currents of hope and sorrow, until no breath is left on either side.
For my Master of Arts in Children’s Literature (UBC) I wrote a hybrid critical-creative thesis. You can find the critical exegesis here. I also wrote a middle-grade novel manuscript titled Jaida and the Man in the Champagne Dress. In 2017, this manuscript was longlisted forThe Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition.
BLOG
Queer Bekinnings Blog Project: In 2021, when I was partway through my PhD and also trying to make a second baby, the pandemic hit. Suddenly at home, intensively parenting my then three-year-old, I turned to writing a blog to document my experience of doing and making kin. This is academic theorizing meets personal storytelling.