{{Short description|American author}} {{Infobox writer | name = Kim Barnes | image = | imagesize = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1958}} | birth_place = Lewiston, Idaho, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Novelist, essayist | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = Robert Wrigley | partner = | children = | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | website = | portaldisp = }}
'''Kim Barnes''' (born 1958 in Lewiston, Idaho) is a contemporary American author of fiction, memoir, and personal essays.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Classroom%20Materials/Reading%20the%20Region/Northwest%20Schools%20of%20Literature/Commentary/14.html |website=Center for the study of the Pacific Northwest |title=Northwest Schools of Literature: Commentary 14. Kim Barnes, 1958– |access-date=20 Jan 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180601080040/http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Classroom%20Materials/Reading%20the%20Region/Northwest%20Schools%20of%20Literature/Commentary/14.html |archive-date=1 Jun 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> She served as Poet Laureate of Idaho.
== Life == She returned with her mother to their logging camp on Orofino Creek in the Clearwater National Forest, where her father worked as a lumberjack. For the next twelve years, she and her family lived in small communities and cedar camps in northern Idaho{{emdash}}Pierce, Headquarters, and a number of places along the North Fork of the Clearwater River. In 1970, her family moved to Lewiston, Idaho, where Barnes graduated from Lewiston High School in 1976.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.arts.idaho.gov/writers/kim.aspx |website=Idaho Commission on the Arts |title=Writer in residence 2005 - 2008 Kim Barnes |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312113754/http://arts.idaho.gov/writers/kim.aspx |archive-date=12 Mar 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
Barnes received her B.A. in English from Lewis-Clark State College in 1983, her M.A. in English from Washington State University in 1985, and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Montana in 1995. Barnes teaches creative writing at the University of Idaho,<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.uidaho.edu/class/english/kimbarnes.aspx | website=University of Idaho |title=Kim Barnes |access-date=20 Jan 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170508233915/http://www.uidaho.edu/class/english/graduate/mfa-creative-writing/mfa-faculty/kim-barnes |archive-date=8 May 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> and lives with her husband, Robert Wrigley, a poet, in Idaho. They have three children.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.redroom.com/author/kim-barnes/bio |title=Kim barnes |website=Red Room |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111119080557/http://redroom.com/member/kim-barnes |archive-date=19 Nov 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Barnes's creative works addresses subjects including the American West, religious fundamentalism, women's issues, logging, and the environment, and reflects her interest in feminist interpretations of mythology and Jungian archetypes.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cordo |first1=Emily |title="Sleep With Your Rifle": The Power of Writing from Trauma and Myth An Interview with Kim Barnes |url=https://porterhousereview.org/articles/sleep-with-your-rifle-the-power-of-writing-from-trauma-and-myth-an-interview-with-kim-barnes/ |website=Porter House Review |accessdate=4 January 2020}}</ref> In ''A Country Called Home,'' one of her main characters has the condition known as synesthesia and sees color when she hears music.
Her work has appeared widely in anthologies and journals, including ''The Georgia Review'', ''Shenandoah'', ''MORE Magazine'', and the Pushcart Prize anthology.
Barnes appeared on the Lit Hub/Podglomerate podcast Storybound.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://radioink.com/2019/10/22/the-return-of-radio-theater/|title=The Return Of Radio Theater|website=Radio Ink|language=en|date=October 22, 2019|access-date=October 26, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lithub.com/introducing-the-storybound-podcast/|title=Introducing the Storybound Podcast|website=Literary Hub|language=en|date=October 22, 2019|access-date=October 26, 2019}}</ref>
==Awards== She is the recipient of two grants from the Idaho Commission on the Arts. In 1995, she was chosen to receive the PEN/Jerard fellowship given to an emerging woman writer of nonfiction.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.uidaho.edu/newsevents/item?name=kim-barnes-wins-prestigious-pen-usa-award |title=Kim Barnes Wins Prestigious PEN USA Award |website=University of Idaho |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302180448/http://www.uidaho.edu/newsevents/item?name=kim-barnes-wins-prestigious-pen-usa-award |archive-date=2 Mar 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1997, she was honored with a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award for ''In the Wilderness'', which was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and the Quality Paperback Book Club's New Visions Award.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pw.org/content/kim_barnes |title=Kim Barnes |website=Poets & Writers |date=28 September 2008 |access-date=20 Jan 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011072436/https://www.pw.org/content/kim_barnes |archive-date=11 Oct 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> From 2004 to 2007, she served as Idaho Writer-in-Residence.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/loyal-to-the-land/Content?oid=922500 |title=Loyal to the Land. Idaho's writer-in-residence Kim Barnes |date=1 Jun 2005 |access-date=20 Jan 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130316075657/https://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/loyal-to-the-land/Content?oid=922500 |archive-date=16 Mar 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>
==Published work==
===Memoirs=== * {{cite book |first=Kim |last=Barnes |title=In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country |title-link=In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country |publisher=Doubleday Books, Anchor |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-385-47821-2}} * {{cite book |first=Kim |last=Barnes |title=Hungry for the World: A Memoir |publisher=Villard |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-375-50228-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/hungryforworldme00barn}}
===Novels=== * {{cite book |first=Kim |last=Barnes |title=Finding Caruso |publisher=Putnam |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-399-14967-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/findingcaruso000barn }} * {{cite book |first=Kim |last=Barnes |title=A Country Called Home |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-307-26895-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/countrycalledhom00barn }} * {{cite book |first=Kim |last=Barnes |title=In the Kingdom of Men |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-307-27339-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780307273390 }}
===Editor=== * {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h7QW8qtMYosC&q=Kim+Barnes| title=Circle of Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Western Women Writers| editor-first=Kim |editor-last=Barnes |editor-first2=Mary |editor-last2=Clearman Blew| publisher=University of Oklahoma Press| year= 2001| isbn= 978-0-8061-3367-6 }} * {{cite book |editor-first=Kim |editor-last=Barnes |editor-first2=Claire |editor-last2=Davis |title=Kiss tomorrow Hello: Notes from the Midlife Underground by Twenty-Five Women Over Forty |publisher=Doubleday Books |date=Mar 21, 2006 |isbn=978-0385515412 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780385515412 }}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.kimbarnes.com/ KimBarnes.com] *[http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/an_interview_with_kim_barnes_part_one/C39/L39/ An Interview with Kim Barnes, Part One]
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