Kim Chinquee

Kim Chinquee grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. She served as a medical lab tech in the Air Force, and was stationed in Mississippi, Texas, England, Germany and North Dakota. She received her M.A. in creative writing from the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers, her M.F.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a Henfield Prize. She is the author of the collections Oh Baby and Pretty, and her work has appeared in journals and anthologies including The Nation, NOON, The Huffington Post, Conjunctions, Willow Springs, Denver Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, American Short Fiction, Green Mountains Review, New York Tyrant, Fiction, Mississippi Review, and several others. She lives in Buffalo, New York, where she teaches creative writing.