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Introduction
My name is Edina Kiss. I was born in Dunaújváros in 1973. I graduated from the
Széchenyi István
Grammar School and then from the Kecskemét Teacher Training
College in 1997. I worked as a
teacher for five years, then after my children were born
(2002, 2004), I stayed at home on
maternity leave. During this period (2008-2011), I
obtained my Yoga Teacher Diplomas
(Children's Yoga, Spinal Yoga, Vinyasa Flow Yoga). I
taught both children's and adult groups in
Szentendre and the surrounding area. For
several years, I published my professional yoga
articles and articles on a medical website
(dr.gulyas.hu) and in Elixir Magazine.
My curiosity turned more and more towards self-awareness processes
and personal development. I have studied and practiced several self-awareness systems: Yoga Philosophy (2008-),
Golden Rose Cross School of Spirituality (1989-2007), School of Remembering (2008-2010), Vedic Doctrines
(2012-2016), Graphology (2019-2021).
Writing has always been part of my life as a complex creative and psychological process. The need to attend professional courses naturally arose in me. At the Writing Academy (2016-17) and the Writing Workshop (2018-19), I studied the basics of the craft of writing. Initially, I submitted short stories to national literary competitions, where I won prizes in the prose category, and my short stories were published in anthologies and on literary websites.
Writing has always been part of my life as a complex creative and psychological process. The need to attend professional courses naturally arose in me. At the Writing Academy (2016-17) and the Writing Workshop (2018-19), I studied the basics of the craft of writing. Initially, I submitted short stories to national literary competitions, where I won prizes in the prose category, and my short stories were published in anthologies and on literary websites.
Publications:
- National László Mécs Literary Society: Poems, short stories, novelettes (2018) - Csillagtolvaj
- Aposztróf Publishing House: Word-treasure (2017) - Tangó
- Anna Jókai literary contest, Muzsikál az Erdő Foundation website (2018) - Az egyezség, 3rd prize in the prose category -
- Anna Jókai literary contest, Muzsikál az Erdő Foundation website (2019) A Hegedűs völgye, 2nd prize in the prose category
- Writers' Workshop online (2019) - Az otthon
- NewNautilus (2020, 2021) Égszínkék, A Hegedűs völgye, Repedés
- Szófa (2021) - Kék bicikli
- My first independent collection short stories, Égszínkék - Lélektani történetek, was published in 2020.
- My second collection of short stories was published in 2021 under the title Étertánc.
- In 2022, I published an e-book of selected short stories entitled Éteri Hangok
- Published in NewNautilus magazine: Végtelen nyolcasok (2023)
- Published in Helyőrség magazine: Katalinka, szállj el (2023)
- My third book was published in November 2023, entitled "Szólamok a szívkamrából".
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About The
Book
As with all of her books, the twenty short stories in Life’s Little Mysteries – a choice selection of those in the author’s first two volumes – are seemingly ordinary tales of mothers, daughters, families, and loneliness, and yet they manage to invite the reader on a fascinating journey deep into the human mind. Led through multidimensional inner spaces, we may find in them our way toward better understanding our own personal experiences, and seeing relationships in a new light.
Experience is always in sharp focus. Readers are patched into the protagonists’ innermost psyches, their inner conundrums, and coping mechanisms laid bare to resonate with the our emotional repertoire. Even as each story is satisfyingly plot- and character-driven, each also shows us that the real action takes place inside, and that even apparent regularity can conceal inner storms.
In “Jaguar Power,” a young woman tells the story of growing up in the warm, soothing presence of her devoted mother – a mother she imagines as a protective jaguar, and yet whose real story becomes clear, shockingly so, at the end. In “Shifting Stars,” two little girls bond by secretly discovering a magical world of freedom high above the children’s hospital ward they both inhabit, a freedom that, sadly, poignantly, proves short-lived. And in “Without a Cross,” the narrator finds herself at a yoga center near the Grand Canyon where a seemingly out-of-place picture of Jesus on the wall ratchets up her inner tension, inexplicably so, until she finally comes to terms with the childhood trauma it evokes.
Meanwhile, the stories mingle wakefulness and dreams, reality and fantasy – and timelines keep shifting as uncertainty and certainty do in these mental storms. Touches of magical realism blend in exquisitely in these stories with the narrative environment. After all, nothing could be further from the deep psyche than rationality.
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