1994 3 January: Kaitlyn (Lansing/Bankson) Quis born, North Hempstead, New York, eldest child of a music teacher, Radomir Quis, and a copywriter, Anita Chaudhry, who had been married for about four years by then. Younger sibling: Kevin Quis was born in 1997.
1997-2008: Preschool, elementary, middle schooling in Penn Yan, New York.
1997-Pres: Enrolled on and off in classical ballet training.
2001: Lansing’s parents get divorced.
2005 2 July: Lansing’s mother, Anita, died of cancer.
2005: Consciously rejected religion and declared herself an atheist.
2008-2012: Middle and high schooling in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Participated and won several rounds of Poetry Out Loud in 2011 and again in 2012.
2009: Read Atlas Shrugged which gave words to already developing beliefs in atheism and capitalism.
2012-2016: College schooling in Washington, District of Columbia, majored in Literature: Creative Writing and Philosophy.
2012-2016: Student Library Assistant while studying in college.
2013 June: Ayn Rand Institute Intern where Lansing initially met her future first husband, then aged 25, in Irvine, California.
2013-2014: Completed Objectivist Academic Center course.
2016 3 September: Created website to self-publish three e-books that were primarily written throughout Lansing’s time in college: Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Poems; Unveiled: An Anthology of Nonfiction; Urgency: An Anthology of Short Stories.
2016 4 September: Completed her first novella Marginalia from the Snake Pit: A Novella and self-published it as an e-book after several rejections from publishers.
2016-2018: Receptionist at a law firm in D.C. and began proofreading business, Lansing Proofreading, LLC, in 2018.
2016 6 November: Lansing married and they lived together in D.C. before moving to Dubuque, Iowa.
2018-2021: Library Assistant at a public library in Dubuque, Iowa.
2020 18 January: Completed her first novel The Paper Pusher and self-published it through Lansing Press, LLC, after several rejections from publishers. Learned for the first time how to create and sell the novel in paperback, hardcover, e-book, and audiobook form. Promised herself, at that point, to continue self-publishing her own work, with or without the help of the modern-day publishing industry.
2020: Opened calligraphy business, Lansing Calligraphy, LLC.
2020 7 October: Lansing divorced after nearly four years of marriage.
2020: Met her future second husband, Ryan Bankson, then aged 32, at the public library where they both worked.
2022 22 January: Lansing married Ryan and they currently live in Dubuque, Iowa.
2021-Pres: Lansing went full-time freelance and began working on the first drafts of multiple novels.
2022 22 January: Merged three businesses into one, creating American Wordsmith, LLC.
2022 2 August: Completed her second novel The Dormant Age and self-published it through Lansing Press, LLC.
2022 6 September: Completed her third novel A Man of Silence and self-published it through Lansing Press, LLC.
2022 4 October: Completed her fourth novel A Man of Action and self-published it through Lansing Press, LLC.
***To be Continued***
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