Kim Chinquee
Kim Chinquee grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin, served in the Air Force as a medical technologist, and worked as a med tech in various civilian clinics and hospitals, most recently during Covid. Her Covid novel, Pipette, was published in 2022 with Ravenna Press, and she is the author of Oh Baby (Ravenna Press 2008), Pretty (White Wine Press 2010), Veer (Ravenna Press 2017), Shot Girls (Ravenna Press 2018), Wetsuit (Ravenna Press 2019), and Snowdog (Ravenna Press 2021), as well as Pistol, which appears in the anthology Triple No. 3 (Ravenna Press 2012). She’s received three Pushcart Prizes, is senior editor of New World Writing Quarterly, associate editor of Midwest Review, chief editor of ELJ (Elm Leaves Journal), and director of SUNY-Buffalo State University’s writing major. She’s published widely, in journals and anthologies including NOON, Conjunctions, StoryQuarterly, Fiction, Notre Dame Review, The Nation, Buffalo Noir, Short: An International Anthology of Five Centuries of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose Forms, The Female Complaint: Tales of Unruly Women, The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers, The & Now Award: The Best Innovative Writing, New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, and others. She is a competitive triathlete, a USA Triathlon Certified Official, and she lives with her three dogs in Tonawanda, New York.
