Kim Coleman Foote is the author of the debut novel Coleman Hill, named a finalist for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, NAACP Image Award, and Audie Award, and long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Inspired by Kim's family, Coleman Hill weaves fact and fiction to trace their Great Migration journey from Alabama and Florida to Vauxhall, New Jersey, examining the rarely-heard stories of black migrants in the suburban North. Kim's forthcoming novel, Salt Water Sister, moves between 1700s and 1990s Ghana, looking at the impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade on three women's lives, while exploring the cyclical nature of history and its continued impact on our lives today.
Born and raised in New Jersey, Kim has received writing fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown, the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Bread Loaf, Phillips Exeter Academy, and Center for Fiction, a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct fieldwork in Ghana, and writing residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Yaddo, MacDowell, and Hedgebrook, among others. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2022, The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, Kweli, and elsewhere.
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