Achievements

Kim Chinquee, associate professor of English, penned the novella, I Thought of England, which is included in the tryptic Agency 3 (Baobab Press) that launched via a Zoom reading on September 9. 

From the publisher:

"Three novellas, Teresa Carmody's Today Must Be Sunday, Kim Chinquee’s I Thought of England, and Allison Pitinii Davis’s Business, unique in style and narrative, deal with longing, loneliness, fear, and the relationships their characters make, and break, on their way to something like peace, if not happiness. Entering and abandoning social contracts and expectations across the country in the pursuit of the somewhat ethereal notion of contentment, these stories highlight the struggles of women across American cultural eras, armed only with their ability to think and to act. These three novellas describe the harrowing, soul-rattling actions and choices made by women in the pursuit of defining their lives."

About the author:

Kim Chinquee grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin, served in the Air Force as a medical technologist, and worked as a med tech in various civilian clinics and hospitals, most recently during Covid. Her Covid novel, Pipette, was published in 2022 with Ravenna Press, and she is the author of Oh Baby (Ravenna Press 2008), Pretty (White Wine Press 2010), Veer (Ravenna Press 2017), Shot Girls (Ravenna Press 2018), Wetsuit (Ravenna Press 2019), and Snowdog (Ravenna Press 2021), as well as Pistol, which appears in the anthology Triple No. 3 (Ravenna Press 2012). She’s received three Pushcart Prizes, is senior editor of New World Writing Quarterly, associate editor of Midwest Review, chief editor of ELJ (Elm Leaves Journal), and prose poetry editor of Pithead Chapel. She’s published widely, in journals and anthologies including NOON, Conjunctions, StoryQuarterly, Fiction, Notre Dame Review, The Nation, Buffalo Noir, Short: An International Anthology of Five Centuries of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose Forms, The Female Complaint: Tales of Unruly Women, The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers, The & Now Award: The Best Innovative Writing, New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, and others. She is a competitive triathlete, a USA Triathlon Certified Official, an associate professor at Buffalo State University, and she lives with her three dogs in Western New York.