Kim Church

Kim Church’s debut novel Byrd (Dzanc Books, 2014), the fractured family history of a child given up for adoption, won the Crook’s Corner Book Prize, was a Chautauqua Prize finalist and an IPPY medalist, and was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the SIBA Book Award. The book appeared on many "best-of" lists, and Kim was the Duke University Libraries Author of the Year.

Her new novel, Lena and Rae, a story of sisterhood set during the murderous North Carolina textile strikes of the 1920s and 1930s, is due in March 2027 from Dzanc Books. "A powerful novel, deeply felt and incredibly moving -- a major work." -- Lee Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Girls and Silver Alert.

Her short work has appeared in the Norton anthology Flash Fiction Forward, The Great Books Foundation Short Story Omnibus, Printers Row Journal, Shenandoah, Mississippi Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere. She has received fiction fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council and residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Millay Colony for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities. She lives with her husband, artist Anthony Ulinski, in Raleigh, North Carolina.