Gelder, Kiera Van

Kiera Van Gelder, MFA, is a writer, artist, and educator diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.

She attended Groton School, Bard College, Empire State College and Emerson College, though she only graduated from half of those.

An international mental health activist, she is featured in the documentary “Back From the Edge: Living with and Recovering from Borderline Personality Disorder,” produced by the award-winning Lichtenstein Creative Media. Her poetry, fiction and essays have been published in numerous literary and mental health journals.

Currently she lives at a Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Center in Massachusetts and is at work on her second memoir, I’m Not a Sex Addict, You Are.