Temple Kinyon

Temple Kinyon is an author and freelance writer living in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her dream of becoming a published author came to fruition when she jumped into a full-time freelance writing career in 2012. She became a contributing writer for BLVDS LV Magazine in 2014, where she also landed her first editorial assistant position. She published her first book, THE BUTTON BOXES, in 2019, and her fiction and non-fiction contributions have appeared in Home & Harvest Magazine and Idaho Grain Magazine.

As a proud University of Idaho Vandal, she is honored and humbled to be co-author with President C. Scott Green of her second book, UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT'S CRISIS HANDBOOK. Temple considers herself a nostalgia writer; her childhood experiences continue to offer an unlimited supply of anecdotes for her varied writing projects. Writing magazine articles and books are her passions, but she also works as a freelance copywriter and editor and occasional writing mentor to young creatives.

Temple firmly believes in persistence, pursuing dreams, full-circle moments, living an effervescent life, and using the good China for pizza dinner. She lives to work but only if there are “Workations” at the “shocean” involved. When she’s not writing, she loves to craft, and…big surprise…read.