Synopses & Reviews
"There is always a roiling subtext beneath the seemingly placid surfaces and tones of Chinquee's pieces, a dichotomy which speaks to deep truths about the human condition. Kim Chinquee is a true artist with a true vision, and Pretty is a brilliant book."—Robert Olen Butler
"These brief snapshots of conversations manage to seem not like fragments of lost wholes but like vivid distillations of essential dramas, each a variation on the shared subject of thwarted intimacy."—Carl Dennis
Kim Chinquee lives in Buffalo, New York, where she teaches creative writing. Oh Baby is her first book of flash fiction.
Synopsis
"Chinquee is a true artist with a true vision, and Pretty is a brilliant book."--Robert Olen-Butler
Synopsis
Poetry. "There is always a roiling subtext beneath the seemingly placid surfaces and tones of Chinquee's pieces, a dichotomy which speaks to deep truths about the human condition. Kim Chinquee is a true artist with a true vision, and PRETTY is a brilliant book"--Robert Olen Butler.
About the Author
Kim Chinquee is the author of PRETTY (White Pine Press, 2O10) and Oh Baby (Ravenna Press, 2008), and is coeditor of the anthology Online Writing: Best of the First Ten Years (Snowvigate Press, 2009). Her work has appeared in Noon, DENVER QUARTERLY, Mississippi Review, Fiction, Notre Dame Review, New York Tyrant, elimae, and several other journals. She is the recipient of a Puschart Prize and a Henfield Prize, and lives in Buffalo, New York.