Kimberly Elkins

Kimberly Elkins is pictured with David Amram, composer and friend, who recently visited the Kerouac House. Kimberly Elkins’ fiction and nonfiction have been published in The Atlantic Monthly, Best New American Voices 2004, The Village Voice, Glamour, Prevention Magazine, and the McGraw-Hill college literature textbook, "Arguing Through Literature." A personal essay is upcoming in Maisonneuve. She was a Finalist in Fiction for the 2004 National Magazine Award, and has received fellowships from The Edward Albee Foundation, The Sewanee Writers Conference, and the SLS fellowship in Nonfiction to St. Petersburg, Russia. For "What Is Visible," the novel she’s writing now, she held a joint research fellowship from the Houghton Library at Harvard, the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe and the Massachusetts Historical Society in 2008; in 2007, she was the recipient of the William Randolph Hearst Fellowship at The American Antiquarian Society for research on the novel. She's had writing colony residencies this year at The Millay Colony and Blue Mountain Center. A fomer personal assistant to both legendary director, Elia Kazan, and Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, she's had three plays produced in New York City and a screenplay optioned. As Writer in Residence for the Kerouac Project, she'll be living in Jack Kerouac's Florida home March through May 2009. A longtime resident of New York City, Kimberly will be moving shortly to ___________!