Kim Church
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Kim Church

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Kim Church is the author of BYRD (Dzanc Books), winner of the Crook's Corner Book Prize for best debut novel set in the South, a Chautauqua Prize finalist, and longlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction. Church's short work appears in the Norton anthology Flash Fiction Forward, The Sun Magazine, The Believer Logger, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. She has received fiction fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council and residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Millay Colony for the Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband, artist Anthony Ulinski. Visit her online at www.kimchurch.com. From BYRD: Addie believes in books. They are more interesting than real life and easier to understand. Sometimes you can guess the ending. Things usually work out, and if they don't, you can always tell yourself it was only a book. Also, there's the paper-and-glue smell of them, and the way the pages turn soft from being read and re-read. In first grade, Addie's teacher gives reading prizes: for every twenty-five books, a silver dollar; or, if you prefer, she'll drive over to your house after supper and let you choose a toy out of the trunk of her car. Addie always invites her over. She likes having the teacher's giant black Chevrolet parked out front where the neighbors can see. She likes standing over the trunk, inspecting the dolls, cradles, jump ropes, Slinkies, kickballs, knowing any of them could be hers. In the end, she is always practical. She collects enough silver dollars to fill a peanut butter jar, which she keeps on her dresser. It makes her feel rich and important, like someone you might read about in a book.
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