Kim Coleman Foote

Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

NJ
New Jersey US
Email: 
kim@kimfoote.com
Website: 
www.kimfoote.com

Author's Bio

Kim Coleman Foote is author of the forthcoming book, Coleman Hill, a fictionalized account of her family's Great Migration journey from Alabama and Florida to New Jersey. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Best American Short Stories 2022, The Rumpus, Green Mountains Review, Prairie Schooner, Iron Horse Literary Review, the Missouri Review, and elsewhere, and has received honorable mention in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Essays anthologies. Major honors include writing fellowships from Phillips Exeter Academy, the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Center for Fiction, and fellowship residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, and Hedgebrook. Kim grew up in New Jersey, where she started writing at the age of seven(ish).

Education: 
Chicago State University MFA
Writers Retreats: 
Anderson Center Artist Residency Program
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
Hambidge Creative Residency Program
MacDowell
Literary agent: 
Dorian Karchmar, William Morris Endeavor

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Anthologies:
Relations: An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices (Harper, 2023)
,
Trauma, Tresses, & Truth: Untangling Our Hair Through Personal Narratives (Chicago Review Press, 2022)
,
One World, Many Cultures (Longman/Pearson, 2008)
,
Homelands (Seal Press, 2006)
Journals:
Babel Fruit Online
,
Baobab:South African Journal of New Writing
,
Black Arts Quarterly
,
Black Renaissance Noire
,
Crab Orchard Review
,
The Literary Review
,
Potomac Review
,
Reverie: Midwest African American Literature

Fiction

Anthologies:
The Best American Short Stories 2022 (Mariner Books, 2022)
,
Just Like a Girl (GirlChild Press, 2008)
,
Women.Period (Spinsters Ink, 2008)
Journals:
Green Mountains Review
,
Iron Horse Literary Review
,
Kweli Journal
,
Missouri Review
,
Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora
,
Prairie Schooner
,
The Rumpus
,
Tidal Basin Review
Prizes won: 

Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship, B. Frank Vogel Scholarship in Fiction (Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference), George Bennett Fellowship (Phillips Exeter Academy), Center for Fiction Fellowship, NYFA Fellowship, NEA Literature Fellowship, NEA Fellowship (Hambidge Center), Tidal Basin Review Editorial Prize, Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellowship (Vermont Studio Center), Africana Creative Nonfiction Award (Pan-African Literary Forum), Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for creative nonfiction

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
African American
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Incarcerated individuals, Schools, Seniors, Teachers, Women
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
NJ
New Jersey
Raised in: 
NJ
New Jersey
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Last update: May 08, 2023