Kim
Barnes is the author of two memoirs and two previous novels, including A
Country Called Home, which received the 2009 PEN Center USA Literary Award
in fiction and was named a best book of 2008 by the Washington Post, the
Kansas City Star, and the Oregonian. She is the recipient of the
PEN/Jerard Fund Award for an emerging woman writer of nonfiction, and her first
memoir, In the Wilderness, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her
work has appeared in a number of publications and anthologies, including the New
York Times; MORE magazine; O Magazine; Good Housekeeping; Fourth
Genre; The Georgia Review; Shenandoah; and the Pushcart Prize anthology.
Barnes is a professor of writing at the University of Idaho and lives with her
husband, the poet Robert Wrigley, on Moscow Mountain.
