Kim Edwards

Kim Edwards has won numerous awards, including a Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award and most recently the Kentucky Literary Award for fiction. She is the author of a collection of short stories, "The Secrets Of a Fire King," which was an alternate for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her stories and essays have appeared in "Ploughshares, Zoetrope, Anteaus, Story," and "The Paris Review" and have received a National Magazine Awards for excellence in Fiction and a Pushcart Prize. A graduate of the...See more

Kim Edwards has won numerous awards, including a Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award and most recently the Kentucky Literary Award for fiction. She is the author of a collection of short stories, "The Secrets Of a Fire King," which was an alternate for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her stories and essays have appeared in "Ploughshares, Zoetrope, Anteaus, Story," and "The Paris Review" and have received a National Magazine Awards for excellence in Fiction and a Pushcart Prize. A graduate of the Iowa's Writers' Workshop, she currently teaches writing at the University of Kentucky. This is her first novel, which has been chosen as a Barnes and Noble Discover title. She lives in Lexington, Kentucky with her husband and daughters. See less