Kim Edwards
Kim Edwards
Kim Edwards is an American author and educator. She was born in Killeen, Texas, grew up in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, and graduated from Colgate University and The University of Iowa, where she earned an MFA in fiction and an MA in linguistics. She is the author of a story collection, The Secrets of a Fire King, which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award; her stories have been published in The Paris Review, Story, Ploughshares,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth4 May 1958
CountryUnited States of America
The city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her . . . so startling in its vastness and its beauty that she had gasped and slowed, afraid of losing control of the car
That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.
They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning.
I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people
It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.
Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.
It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.
His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.
Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.
He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as a kind of penance. It was self-destructive, he could see that, but that was the way things were. People smoked, they jumped out of airplanes, they drank too much and got into their cars and drove without seat belts.
Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.
The Lake of Dreams grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.
I think that the whole child welfare system has to be totally taken apart and built up again. Have an agency just specifically for those follow-up cases.
Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.