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Jan/Feb 2018 • Vol. XL No. 1 2017 Short Fiction Contest |

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Kimberly King Parsons
Kimberly King Parsons’s work has been published or is forthcoming in Best Small Fictions 2017, New South, Black Warrior Review, No Tokens, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. She earned an MFA in fiction from Columbia University, where she served as the editor in chief of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art. She received the 2016 Indiana Review Fiction Prize, placed second in the 2017 Joyland Open Border Fiction Prize, and has been awarded fellowships from WxW and Columbia University. She recently completed a short story collection and is finishing a novel about LSD, motherhood, and missed opportunities.

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