Kim Brooks is an author. Her fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, One Story, and The Missouri Review. Her essays have appeared in Salon, Buzzfeed, New York magazine, LennyLetter, and on WNYC’s Note to Self. Her first novel, "The Houseguest," was published in 2016. Her parenting memoir, "Small Animals," was published in 2018. Brooks is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow.