09.29.2005:Sheila Bleck and Kristin Kaye

Hard bodies: Sheila Bleck is one of the female bodybuilders featured in PSU graduate Kristin Kaye’s recently published book.

Iron maidens

The writing program’s first graduate to publish a book dabbles in unlikely subject matter

By Brian Duke

September 29, 2005

Portland State graduate student Kristin Kaye had little interest in the world of female bodybuilding until one day during a job search she accidentally called the gym where bodybuilder Lori Fierstein was working out. 

One thing led to another, and Kaye was asked to be the playwright director for a show whose stars were the top female bodybuilders and powerlifters in the world.