Kim Edwards

Kim Edwards is an American novelist and short-story writer, born May 4, 1958, in Killeen, Texas. She holds a B.A. from Colgate University and an MFA in fiction and MA in linguistics from the University of Iowa, where she attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Her debut story collection, The Secrets of a Fire King, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and won the Whiting Writers' Award and the Nelson Algren Award. Her first novel, The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2005), spent over two years on the New York Times bestseller list and won the Kentucky Literary Award.

She has taught in the MFA programs at Warren Wilson College and Washington University, and is a professor of English at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky.