Kim Church’s debut novel Byrd (Dzanc Books) won the Crook’s Corner Book Prize, was a Chautauqua Prize finalist, and was long-listed for the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction. Her short work appears in The Sun Magazine, North Carolina Literary Review, Shenandoah, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Great Books Foundation Short Story Omnibus, and other journals and anthologies. She recently completed a manuscript of her second novel, Lena and Rae, a story of sisterhood set during the North Carolina textile strikes of the 1920s and 1930s. Kim lives with her husband, artist Anthony Ulinski, in Raleigh, North Carolina.