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SHORT BIO
Kim Adrian is the author of two books of lyric criticism (Dear Knausgaard and Sock) and a memoir, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet. Several of her shorter works have been listed as Notable or Distinguished in the Best American Essays, Best American Short Stories, and the Pushcart Prize anthologies. Her writing has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writing Seminars, the Edward Albee Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and others. She has taught creative writing at Brown University and currently teaches independently. She edited the anthology The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms, and is the creator of Write On, a craft-oriented newsletter for writers.

LONG BIO
Kim Adrian is the author of The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet, a memoir the Los Angeles Review of Books called "aching, endless, unresolved, and extremely compelling." It was published in 2018 by the University of Nebraska Press as part of their American Lives Series, edited by Tobias Wolff, and is a Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist. Kim's first book, Sock ("reflects on the brilliance present in the minutiae of our lives" —Shelf Awareness), is part of Bloomsbury's acclaimed Object Lessons Series. It has been translated into Chinese by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House. Her most recent book, Dear Knausgaard, was published in the US by Fiction Advocate in August 2020 as part of their Afterwords Series ("reinventing literary criticism"), and is forthcoming in the UK from Boiler House Press as part of their Beyond Criticism Series. Kim's short stories and essays have appeared in O Magazine, Tin House, Agni, the Gettysburg Review, and many other places. Two essays have been translated into Chinese for Chinese literary magazines; two have received special mention from the Pushcart Prize anthology (2010, 2011); the essay "Ten Conversations about My Struggle" (originally published in The Gettysburg Review) was cited as a Notable Essay in the Best American Essays 2020. "How to Buy Peaches" was cited as a Notable Essay in the Best American Essays 2010; and the short story "Toast" was cited as a Distinguished Short Story in the Best American Short Stories 2014. Kim's work has garnered several awards and recognitions, including grants and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Foundation, The Edward Albee Foundation, Brown University, The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, PEN New England, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Kim is the editor of The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms, an anthology of lyric essays that a review in The Millions praised as providing "a sense of hope about literature and its capacity for evolution and change." She is the author of a libretto called "The Strange Child," based on a fairy tale by E.T.A. Hoffmann. The opera was commissioned by the Pittsburgh-based women's music group, Kamraton, and the music is being written by Julia Werntz. "The Strange Child" will premiere in the spring of 2021. A graduate of Barnard College with a major in Cultural Anthropology, Kim received her MFA in Literature and Creative Writing from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She has taught creative nonfiction at Brown University, and occasionally offers classes at Grub Street, in downtown Boston. She lives in the Boston-area with her husband and children.

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CONTACT
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Instagram: @kim_adrian_

REPRESENTATION
Kim is represented by Seren Adams at United Agents. Seren's email is SAdams@unitedagents.co.uk

PRESS INQUIRIES
Press inquiries for Dear Knausgaard
Brian Hurley | fiction.advocate@gmail.com

Press inquiries for The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet and for The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms
Anna Weir | aweir@unl.eduTel: (402) 472-5938

Press inquires for Sock
US: Laura Ewen | Laura.Ewen@bloomsbury.com  Tel: (212) 419-5300
UK: Clare Kathleen Bogen | clare.bogen@bloomsbury.com  Tel: +44(0) 7631 5806

AUTHOR PHOTO
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DEAR KNAUSGAARD
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Genre: Criticism
ISBN-13: 978-0-9994316-5-8
Publisher: Fiction Advocate
Series: Afterwords (ed. Brian Hurley)
Expected Pub Date: 5/12/2020
Paperback: 194 pp
List Price: $19.95

One-line summary: a heartfelt celebration of the act of reading and a compelling feminist critique of the 6-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle, by Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard. 

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LETTER OF THE ALPHABET
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Genre: Memoir
ISBN-10: 1496201973
ISBN-13: 978-1496201973
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Series: American Lives (ed. Tobias Wolff)
Pub Date: 10/1/2018
Paperback: 304 pp
List Price: $19.95

One-line summary: an intimate portrait of the chaos of a mother's mental illness and a deep meditation on storytelling itself—written in the form of a glossary.

SOCK
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Genre: Philosophy/Aesthetics
ISBN-10: 1501315064
ISBN-13: 978-1501315060
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Series: Object Lessons (ed. Christopher Schaberg and Ian Bogost)
Pub Date: 9/7/2017
Paperback: 144 pp
List Price: $14.95

One-line summary: an examination of the humble sock reveals extraordinary secrets hiding in this most ordinary objects and along the way reintroduces us to our own bodies—vulnerable, bipedal, and flawed.


THE SHELL GAME: WRITERS PLAY WITH BORROWED FORMS
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Editor: Kim Adrian
Genre: Essays
ISBN-10: 0803296762
ISBN-13: 978-0803296763
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Pub Date: 4/1/2018
Paperback: 276 pp
List Price: $24.95

One-line summary: an anthology of lyric essays that borrow their forms from ordinary, everyday sources—such as recipes, police reports, and crossword puzzles.