Kim Church’s last story in Painted Bride Quarterly, “Bullet,” was included in Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories (W.W. Norton), The Great Books Foundation Short Story Omnibus, and translated into Farsi as the title story in the 2009 Iranian anthology Golouleh. Her stories have also appeared in Shenandoah, Mississippi Review, North Carolina Literary Review, Northern Lights, and other journals. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Kim has been awarded writing fellowships in fiction from the North Carolina Arts Council, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. She recently completed her first novel, Byrd, a fragmented family history of a child given up for adoption.