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Kimberly King Parsons

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Kimberly King Parsons is the author of the short story collection Black Light (Vintage), which was longlisted for both the 2019 National Book Award and the 2019 Story Prize, and is a finalist for the 2020 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, the 2020 Texas Institute of Letters Best Work of First Fiction Award, and the 2020 Oregon Book Award. Parsons is a recipient of fellowships from Columbia University and the Sustainable Arts Foundation; her fiction has been published in The Paris Review, Best Small Fictions 2017, Black Warrior Review, No Tokens, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She lives with her partner and sons in Portland, OR, where she is completing a novel (forthcoming from Knopf) about Texas, motherhood, and LSD.

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“You are sweet and smart and definitely not extremely strange. You are lovable and deserving of love--everybody is.”
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“Suki and me, we're hungry and mean. We've got bitter jewels buzzing in our guts. They're bright and gaudy, and we couldn't ignore them if we wanted to. We don't want to. It's the starving that makes us glow--the gimcrack ache, that's what Suki calls this.”
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