Kim Adrian is the author of two books of lyric criticism: Dear Knausgaard (described by James Wood, literary critic for The New Yorker, as “a delight from start to finish”); and Sock (part of Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons Series). She wrote the critically acclaimed memoir The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet, which was a Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist. Other work includes the libretto for the opera The Strange Child (music by Julia Werntz), and editing the anthology of lyric essays called The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms, praised by a review in The Millions as providing “a sense of hope about literature and its capacity for evolution and change.”
Kim's essays and stories have appeared in Agni, Tin House, O Magazine, the Gettysburg Review, the Raritan Review, and many other places. Several shorter works have been listed as Notable or Distinguished in the Best American Essays, Best American Short Stories, and Pushcart Prize anthologies. Three of her works, including her book Sock, have been translated into Mandarin for publication in China.
Her honors and awards include a Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) Individual Artist Grant, an MCC Creative Individual Grant, the Editors’ Prize in Nonfiction from the New Ohio Review, a P.E.N. New England Discovery Award, scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Key West Literary Seminars, and residencies at the Edward Albee Barn, Ragdale, VCCA, and the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf (Germany).
A graduate of Barnard College with a major in Cultural Anthropology, Kim received her MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She has taught creative writing at Brown University, Grub Street, and the Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop. She lives in Boston.
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