Kimberly Elkins

Kimberly Elkins's fiction and nonfiction have been published in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, Best New American Voices, The Iowa Review, The Village Voice, The Chicago Tribune, Maisonneuve, Glamour and Slice, among others. She was a finalist for the 2004 National Magazine Award, and has received fellowships from the Edward Albee and William Randolph Hearst foundations, the American Antiquarian Society, the Millay Colony, the Sewanee Writers Conference, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a joint research fellowship from the Houghton Library at Harvard, the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe, and the Massachusetts Historical Society for research on her novel. She has an MFA in Fiction from Boston University, and served as a Visiting Lecturer and Thesis Advisor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Hong Kong, the first of its kind in Asia. Kimberly grew up in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.