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).