Kim Dana Kupperman

Kim Dana Kupperman is the author of the award-winning collection of essays, I Just Lately Started Buying Wings. Missives from the Other Side of Silence (2010), which received the 2009 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize in Nonfiction from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and was longlisted for the Indie Booksellers Association Choice Award. Other books include The Last of Her: A Forensic Memoir ( 2016), Six Thousand Miles to Home: A Novel Based on a True Story of World War II (2018), and, as lead editor, You: An Anthology of Essays Devoted to the Second Person (2013). She is the founder of Welcome Table Press, dedicated to publishing and celebrating the essay in all its forms. Ms. Kupperman is currently at work on a nonfiction book about several families who survived the Holocaust. She teaches privately. From 2011-2014, she was the Visiting Writer-in-Residence in nonfiction at Fordham University, and is the former managing editor of the Gettysburg Review, where she launched and coordinated a summer writer conference. She has taught at several MFA programs and many writer’s conferences. Her writing has appeared in several anthologies as well as AGNI online, Alaska Quarterly Review, Alimentum, Best American Essays 2006, Baltimore Review, Brevity, Cimarron Review, Diagram, Eclectic Literary Forum, Fourth Genre, Hotel Amerika, ISLE, Louisville Review, Maine Scholar, Nightsun, Ninth Letter, the Normal School, River Teeth, and elsewhere. Her honors include the 2013 Normal School Prize; notable mentions in the Pushcart Prize anthology (2007; 2010) and Best American Essays (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2017); the 2003 Robert J. DeMott Prose Prize from Quarter after Eight; and first place in the 1996 Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay Contest. Ms. Kupperman is the recipient of fellowships in 2010 from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Kenyon Review Writer's Workshop, a 2009 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Literature Fellowship, a 2008 Center for Book Arts scholarship, and a 2008 fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.