About me
Kim is the award-winning author of five YA novels with Sourcebooks and Scholastic. Her first novel for adults Other People’s Kids (Sibylline 2025) was named a finalist for the California Independent Booksellers Alliance (CALIBA) 2025 Golden Poppy Award in fiction. In addition to teaching high school, Kim sits on the Writers Council for National Writing Project and works as a fiction mentor with Dominican University of California’s MFA in Creative Writing. Her book 100-Word Stories: A Short Form for Expansive Writing (Heinemann 2023) blends her two professional loves: teaching and writing. She lives in Nevada City, CA. www.kimculbertson.com
