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Catherine Kim

Catherine Kim is a physician who started writing fiction during the pandemic. Her account of the invention of the Pap smear won the Ploughshares Emerging Fiction Writer contest this past year. She has written other fiction involving medical encounters.

Luminous Gender Vessel

Fall 2023

The Woman from Angers

By Catherine Kim

The Kenyon Review · “The Woman from Angers” by Catherine Kim I.                Proposals When I was growing up, our family seemed unremarkable and predictable in every way. My parents, and […]