Kimberly Jean Smith is a writer and teacher. She is the 2013 fiction winner of the Iowa Sweet Corn Contest and was a Literary Award semifinalist at Enizagam. Her work has been published in a number of journals.

For online access to some of her stories click the links below:

• “Diptych: A Study of Flora and Fauna in Two Short Tales”––Published in Shadowgraph Magazine, June 2014.

• “Lucette”––Published in Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment, Fall 2013.

• Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment, Interview Fall 2013.

• “La Flor”––Published in Enizagam, Issue Number Seven. Currently available in print.

• “Five Conditions of Need”––A version of this story was first published in Ping Pong Magazine, 2010.

• “Do You Know Alicia?”––A version of this story was first published in Rio Grande Review, Fall 2007.

Prior to writing fiction, Kimberly focused on journalism, working for daily newspapers and alternative weeklies in New York City, Southern Maine, and Californian, among them the Salinas Californian, The Portland Newspapers, Casco Bay Weekly, and Out Weekly.

She teaches at Gavilan College in Gilroy, California and lives in Santa Cruz. In 2012, she completed the MFA program at Warren Wilson College.