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Al Kratz

Indianola, Iowa 50125
Warren County
Business Type:  Independent Creative
Literary Arts
Fiction
Playwriting
Poetry
Visual

I’m a writer. While I primarily write Literary Fiction, I work in all forms of writing.

I write about people dealing with and trying to understand life. I like to use humor to explore conventional events in unconventional ways. My goal for the work is to be as entertaining as it is informative.

I’m interested in narrative non-fiction inspired by the New Journalists.

I worked in IT for over 30 years and developed Project Management skills that are useful in artistic projects.

I want to publish and support other writers as well where passion and aesthetics match. I want to bring an 80’s Punk Rock DIY approach to independent publishing.

I also dabble in Oil Pastels and Photography.


Last Updated: January 5, 2026, expires: Jun. 17, 2027

Race: White

Ethnicity:

Use this section to get the parent/child taxonomies for a single post being viewed

The above pulls in each of the parents within the artist-discipline taxonomy , which is good, if I want to display them alone without their children.
Terms: Fiction
Terms: Literary Arts
Terms: Playwriting
Terms: Poetry
Terms: Visual

I need to probably display these like this:

Dance: Ballroom, General, Hip Hop, Jazz.

Design: General, Graphic

Will need to figure out how to return the sub categories (artist-discipline) for each parent individually and then loop through all parents assigned to the CPT (artist) being viewed.

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In this section I was able to successfully pull all sub categories that belongs to the 2 parents selected. This could be good if I was trying to show all possible choices under that parent, but what I really need is to pull just the selected ones back.
In this section I was able to successfully pull all sub categories that belongs to the 2 parents selected. This could be good if I was trying to show all possible choices under that parent, but what I really need is to pull just the selected ones back.