Contact with the Wild

By Kim Chinquee

2025

First Published

116

Number of Pages

3H31M

Audio Length

"There is a simplicity to her prose, much of it is pared back and precise. It takes some skill to write so sparingly and requires a self-confidence born from experience and commitment to the craft of writing. Chinquee is a clever writer who is always in control of her material." -IndieReader "Chinquee's measured prose breaks over the reader like shallow, slow-moving waves." -Kirkus Reviews This is an author who knows how to take nothing for granted!" -Kyle McCord, author of Reunion of the Good Weather Suicide Cult "To read Kim Chinquee's work is to be startled, touched and affected." -Pia Z. Ehrhardt, author of Famous Fathers and Now We are Sixty Kim Chinquee has the dead-eye aim and the precision with language that makes her stories hit the mark again and again." -Jean Thompson, National Book Award finalist author of Who Do You Love

Author

Kim Chinquee

Author · 7 books

Kim Chinquee's fiction, nonfiction and poetry have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies including The Nation, Ploughshares, Storyquarterly, Indiana Reveiw, Noon, Denver Quarterly, Conjunctions, Mississippi Review, New Orleans Review, Fiction, Willow Springs, and others. She is the recipient of three Pushcart Prizes and a Henfield Prize. Her collections OH BABY, PISTOL, VEER, SHOT GIRLS, WETSUIT, SNOWDOG and her novel PIPETTE were published by Ravenna Press; her collection of prose poems, PRETTY, was published by White Pine Press. She is an associate professor of English and creative writing at SUNY-Buffalo State University, Associate Editor of Midwest Review, Senior Editor of New World Writing and Chief Editor of ELJ (Elm Leaves Journal)..