Kim Barnes is the author of the novel Finding Caruso and two memoirs, In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country—a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize—and Hungry for the World. She is coeditor with Mary Clearman
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Kim Barnes is the author of the novel
Finding Caruso and two memoirs,
In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country—a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize—and
Hungry for the World. She is coeditor with Mary Clearman Blew of
Circle of Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Western Women Writers, and with Claire Davis of
Kiss Tomorrow Hello: Notes from the Midlife Underground by Twenty-Five Women Over Forty. Her essays, stories, and poems have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including
The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, MORE magazine, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. She teaches writing at the University of Idaho and lives with her husband, the poet Robert Wrigley, on Moscow Mountain.