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Kim Church's debut novel, Byrd, will be published by Dzanc Books in 2014. Written in letters and vignettes, the novel tells the story of Addie Lockwood, a mother without a child. Addie has come of age in the small-town South of the 1970s. At 33, she gives birth to a son, Byrd, and surrenders him for adoption -- in secret, little imagining how her choices will shape her life or the lives of others.
Kim is now at work on her second novel, Mill Mothers' Song, set during the Gastonia textile strike of 1929.
Her short stories have appeared in Shenandoah, Mississippi Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Prime Number Magazine, North Carolina Literary Review, Northern Lights, and other journals, and anthologized in Flash Fiction Forward (W.W. Norton), The Great Books Foundation Short Story Omnibus, Racing Home (Paper Journey Press), and other collections. Her story "Bullet" was translated into Farsi as the title story in the Iranian anthology Golouleh.
A Pushcart Prize nominee, Kim has received grants from the North Carolina Arts Council and fellowships from Millay Colony for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Vermont Studio Center.
Born and raised in Lexington, North Carolina, Kim earned her B.A. in English from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her law degree from UNC-Chapel Hill. She studied fiction writing with Jill McCorkle (Going Away Shoes), Patricia Henley (Other Heartbreaks), and Angela Davis-Gardner (Butterfly's Child).
She lives with her husband, artist Anthony Ulinski, in Raleigh, where she practices law, reviews books for the Raleigh News & Observer, and teaches writing in the community. She has taught high school and college students as well as at-risk students in homeless shelters and prisons, including the women on North Carolina's death row.
News
March 31, 2012: Kim will be a presenter at the eighth annual Isothermal Writers' Workshop.
November 18-19, 2011: Kim will lead a workshop on "The Beating, Breaking, Longing, Loving Hearts of Fictional Characters."
November 5, 2011: Kim and her husband Anthony Ulinski were featured artists at "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," a fundraiser for the United Arts Council, a nonprofit organization that champions arts education in Raleigh and Wake County, North Carolina.
September 2011: Kim will be on retreat at Millay Colony for the Arts in upstate New York, on the grounds of Edna St. Vincent Millay's former estate.
July 2011: Kim's story "Cafeteria Lady" appears in Prime Number Magazine, Issue 11.
November 2010: Kim's story "Victuals" appears in the new Painted Bride Quarterly.
April 2010: Kim was a writer in residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, an arts colony in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in rural Virginia.
February 2010: Kim was a writer in residence at the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities in Southern Pines, North Carolina.
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