Kim Magowan

Kim Magowan lives in San Francisco and teaches at Mills College at Northeastern University. She is the author of the short story collection The Last Day (2026), published by Moon City Press; Don't Take This the Wrong Way (2025), co-authored with Michelle Ross, published by EastOver Press, and chosen as one of LitHub's 100 Most Notable Books of 2025; the short story collection How Far I've Come (2022), published by Gold Wake Press; the novel The Light Source (2019), published by 7.13 Books; and the short story collection Undoing (2018), which won the 2017 Moon City Press Fiction Award. Her fiction has been published in Colorado Review, The Gettysburg Review, Passages North, Smokelong Quarterly, Wigleaf, and many other journals. Her stories have been selected for Best Small Fictions and Wigleaf's Top 50. She is the Editor-in-Chief and Fiction Editor of Pithead Chapel.