Kim Edwards

Kim Edwards captured the attention of the nation with her heart-rending book, The Memory-Keeper's Daughter. However, she was widely acclaimed as a writer even before the publication of that bestselling novel.

Born in 1958 in Texas, Edwards grew up in upstate New York. From a young age, she wanted to be a writer and began pursuing it as a career while in college-first at Auburn Community College and then at Colgate University where she took a fiction workshop. She eventually joined the Iowa Writer's Workshop.

Out of that workshop came her first short story, a genre in which she would excel. She would later be published in Adrienne Brodeur and Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope All-Story literary magazine, the Pushcart Prize collection, and the Best American Short Story collection, amongst other places. Symphony Space would perform her stories.

She is also the recipient of numerous literary awards including the Whiting Award, the National Magazine Award for Fiction, and the Nelson Algren Award. She was a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway Awards and received multiple writing grants, including one from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Edwards traveled in Southeast Asia for several years before settling down in Lexington, Kentucky where she teaches writing at the University of Kentucky.

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