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Kim Kankiewicz

is a Seattle-area writer and co-founder of a community-based literary arts organization, Eastside Writes. Her work has appeared in Pacific Standard, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Brain, Child and elsewhere. She blogs about motherhood and self-image at NestingDollProject.com and about children's literacy at HowToRaiseAReader.com. Visit her online at KimKankiewicz.com or follow her on Twitter @kimprobable.

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What kind of flower are you? Six literary heroines and their floral alter egos

A red rose means love. A daisy, innocence. A violet signifies faithfulness. Vanessa Diffenbaugh’s bestselling novel The Language of Flowers (Ballantine, 2011) sparked renewed interest in Victorian “floriography,” or flower symbolism. Recipients used floral dictionaries to decode the meanings of complicated “talking bouquets” and made floral arrangements to communicate feelings…
Kim Kankiewicz
May 10, 2014