About the Author

WHAT IS VISIBLE is Kimberly's first novel, and it continues to garner great critical acclaim, having been reviewed by Barbara Kingsolver on the cover of the New York Times Book Review and picked as a NYTBR Editors' Choice book, in addition to being chosen as The Most Inspirational Book of 2014 by Woman's Day. WIV was also listed in Best Summer Debuts by the LA Times and Library Journal, and was the June Top Fiction Pick by Bookpage. According to the Washington Post, "Elkins makes this great American woman visible again, in all her remarkable, fully human complexity," The Atlanta Constitution-Journal calls the book "a literary triumph," and the Toronto Star named it "a tour de force, uplifting and powerful. " Bestselling author J. Courtney Sullivan wrote of WHAT IS VISIBLE: "Beautiful, heart-wrenching, and at times quite funny, this book is a marvel. " Kimberly's fiction and nonfiction have been published in The Atlantic Monthly, Best New American Voices, The Iowa Review, The Village Voice, The Chicago Tribune, Maisonneuve, Glamour, Prevention, and Slicee, among others. She was a finalist for the 2004 National Magazine Award and has received fellowships from the Edward Albee and William Randolph Hearst foundations, and a joint research fellowship from the Houghton Library at Harvard, the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe, and the Massachusetts Historical Society for research on her novel. Residencies include the 2009 Kerouac Writer in Residence, and she and has also won a New York Moth Slam. Kimberly grew up in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, and received a BA from Duke University, an MA in Creative Writing from Florida State, and an MFA in Fiction from Boston University. She has taught at Florida State and BU, and is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Hong Kong. She lived in New York for almost 20 years, but currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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