Featured Creative Nonfiction Alum:

Kim Kupperman

Kim Dana Kupperman (MFA Creative Nonfiction, Summer 04) began her prolific writing career with an essay on women artists titled “Journey out of Silence” (Matrix, December, 1980). Since that first foray, her work has appeared in numerous national publications and journals including River Teeth, the Alaska Quarterly Review, City on a Hill, the Cimarron Review, the Louisville Review, Brevity, Hotel Amerika, The Maine Scholar, Peace Works, Quarter After Eight, the Baltimore Review, and others. In March of 2004, she was awarded the Robert J. DeMott Prose Prize for her lyric essay “Four Points.” In 1996, her essay “Of Borders, Infidels, and the Ethic of Love” received the first place award from the Elie Weisel Foundation for Humanity. Her personal essay “Relief” will be featured in Best American Essays 2006.

In addition to writing in nearly every form imaginable (lyric essay, personal essay, memoir, journalism, performance poetry, experimental fiction, etc), she has worked as an editor and handmade book publisher, and is a founding member of the literary touring group Three Genres in the Rain with fellow alums Marcia F. Brown (Poetry, 04), Penelope Schwartz Robinson (Nonfiction, 04), and James Sprouse (Fiction, 04). The group has toured since 2003 raising money for libraries, including a community college library in New Orleans devastated by Hurricane Katrina. She currently resides in Gettysburg, PA where she is managing editor of The Gettysburg Review.

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Selected Publications

“A Short Grammar of Love” (Hotel Amerika, Fall, 2006)

“Relief” (Best American Essays, 2006; Hotel Amerika, Spring 2005)

“Teeth in the Wind” (River Teeth, Spring, 2006)

“I Just Lately Started Buying Wings” (Brevity, Summer 2006)

“The Perfect Meal” (The Baltimore Review, Summer, 2005)

“Lions and Lilith and Snakes, Oh My!” (The Maine Scholar, Vol. 10, Fall, 1997)

“Wildlife” (Eclectic Literary Forum, Fall, 1997)

“Of Borders, Infidels, and the Ethic of Love” (Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay, 1996)

Web Links:

(“I Just Lately Started Buying Wings,” Brevity, Summer 2006)

(“Relief,” Hotel Amerika, Spring 2005)

(“Wings over Moscow,” Cimarron Review, Spring 2006)

(“Teeth in the Wind,” River Teeth, Spring 2006)

(“Of Borders, Infidels, and the Ethic of Love”)

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