Over two decades ago, I quit all my real jobs to figure out why horses made me feel better. Bramblewood Stables in upstate South Carolina is a farm I founded and it is my home base and community where we daily tackle that question and many more through coaching, re-wilding and classical horsemanship.
I’m okay with never discovering the answer to why horses make us feel better, but I am obsessed by daily living the query. I’m a lifelong seeker who embodies the (good) Scorpio qualities of dogged curiosity and uncanny control. Writing is my medium for exploration and the home I’ve always came to rest within since I was very young.
I attended the Fine Arts Center with a focus in creative writing and also attended the SC Governor’s School for the Arts. I am a Young Arts award winner in poetry and received the Archibald Rutledge Prize as well as being selected by Nikki Giovanni for a poetry prize through the Writers Workshop of Asheville. My novella The Mansion House was awarded a runner up honorific in the inaugural Benjamin Wofford Prize for fiction.
My work has appeared in The Emerys Journal, Southeast Equine, Creative Loafing, The Evening Reader, The Rectangle, Upstate Arts, Decor Magazine, Riding Instructor Magazine, Horse Network, and many Medium publications.
For several years I covered cuisine and arts in the southeastern US for regional magazines. I attended Wofford College where I studied art history with an emphasis on Byzantine icons and English with a creative writing focus.
These pages will fill as I slowly migrate my work over from Medium.
I’m honored to have you here with me and look forward to journeying together.
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-Kim
