QuickTalk Friday Interview Series
Talking to The Queen of Memoir
About her growing empire
Hey everyone. I finally got KiKi Walter to do an interview.
She runs six publications on Medium, so she is a busy woman. I’ve been tracking her down like an FBI agent, so thank you Kiki for this interview.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know Kiki is the owner of a growing empire on Medium, including The Memoirist, The Narrative Collective, QuickTalk, The Mayhem, Song Stories, and The Suite 1984 Reading Club.
Kiki describes herself in her bio as a Pub Pirate, Queen Bee, The Memoir Queen, and the evil mastermind behind Suite 1984 Publishing & Therapy.
Also, the Snarky Megalomania. I think the Memoir Queen fits her best. So I’m going to start by asking Kiki about my favorite memoir story of hers.
Scot: I loved your story, “The Time I Ran Away Away to Join The Circus,” where you ditched spending time with your family over the holidays to drive to Chicago on Christmas Eve with a Jim Morrison doppelganger:
I stared up at him in awe.
Standing on the table, his wild mane of brown hair cascading around his shoulders, he threw his head back with a vanquisher’s flair embodying the ghost of…
