Jennifer Kalkman
@jenniferkalkman.bsky.social
Writer drawn to stories that search the past for answers the present has lost. Reunited adoptee. Genealogist. Currently querying THE LOST ROSE OF ROSSLYN — six centuries, five women, one impossible choice.
Pinned
An adoptee and her dying birth mother trace their bloodline through six centuries of women who faced impossible choices. Now she faces hers: keep demanding answers about her father and lose her mother, or let the truth go to the grave. #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying #HistoricalFiction #WomensFiction
An adoptee and her dying birth mother trace their bloodline through six centuries of women who faced impossible choices. Now she faces hers: keep demanding answers about her father and lose her mother, or let the truth go to the grave. #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying #HistoricalFiction #WomensFiction
February 16, 2026 at 4:37 AM
An adoptee and her dying birth mother trace their bloodline through six centuries of women who faced impossible choices. Now she faces hers: keep demanding answers about her father and lose her mother, or let the truth go to the grave. #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying #HistoricalFiction #WomensFiction
Some family memories aren’t written down. They’re ridden down hills. Some of my fondest memories are tied to a 75-year-old wooden sled. Dad used to pull me around on it, and then he did the same for my kids. This winter, my grandson enjoyed it. Same sled. Same joy. jenniferkalkman.com/the-sled/
February 16, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Some family memories aren’t written down. They’re ridden down hills. Some of my fondest memories are tied to a 75-year-old wooden sled. Dad used to pull me around on it, and then he did the same for my kids. This winter, my grandson enjoyed it. Same sled. Same joy. jenniferkalkman.com/the-sled/