Kim Brooks
Writer and personal essays editor
Kim Brooks is a writer and editor who has overseen personal essays at Salon. She wrote the memoir Small Animals: A Memoir of Parenthood and Fear.
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About Kim Brooks
Kim Brooks is a writer who has worked as the personal essays editor at Salon, a news and opinion website. She is the author of the novel The Houseguest, which came out in 2016, and the memoir Small Animals: A Memoir of Parenthood and Fear. Her short stories have been published in journals including Glimmer Train, One Story and Five Chapters. Her essays have run in Salon, New York Magazine and Buzzfeed. Brooks makes her home in Chicago, where her husband and four children also live.