How can you be unromantic about literature?

A lifelong lover of words and literature, Kimberley is passionate about lyrical, immersive, illuminating fiction that rises above the external pressures devouring our modern world. As an advocate for beauty, sincerity, and the human soul, Kimberley uses literary art to offer light in these dark and divisive times.

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Praise for Kimberley’s prose

  • "Fluid, graceful, and unfaltering prose."

    Publishers Weekly.

  • "And can she write . . . packed with those telling details, those neat twists, those perfect turns of phrase. So bright, so authentic."

    —Beatriz Williams, New York Times bestselling novelist.

  • "Neo-Fitzgeraldian."

    —Kevin C. Tait, historian, linguist, and diplomat.

In the News

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The digital age has been a difficult ride for us romantic souls.

In the early years of cell phones and social media, I genuinely believed they were portals, crackling with possibility.

New channels through which hearts could more readily reach across the void to find each other and draw nearer.

There was an innocence to all of it back then: the essay-length emails we earnestly sent each other, the thrill of the digital screech before the computer optimistically declared: “You’ve got mail!” Snapping and sharing a random scene or object through a grainy smartphone image. “It’s like a scrapbook, but online!”

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