Writing by Kimberly King Parsons has been published in New South, Black Warrior Review online, The Towner, No Tokens, Bookforum, and elsewhere. She earned an MFA in fiction from Columbia University, where she served as the editor-in-chief of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art. She was awarded the 2016 Indiana Review Fiction Prize and one of her stories was recently featured on the Ploughshares blog 'The Best Short Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week.'