Kim Chinquee

Kim Chinquee grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin, was a medical laboratory technician in the Air Force and elsewhere (most recently, during COVID). She’s the author of seven collections: Oh Baby, Pretty, Pistol, Veer, Shot Girls, Wetsuit, Snowdog, and the novel Pipette. She’s Chief Editor of Elm Leaves Journal (ELJ), Senior Editor of New World Writing, and Contributing Editor of Midwest Review. Her work has been published widely and received three Pushcart Prizes and a Henfield Prize. She’s a competitive triathlete and lives with her three dogs in Tonawanda, New York. Read more at kimchinquee.com.

What’s Your Emergency?

After that my doctor friend took a road trip to my house. It wasn’t a short drive. I wasn’t dating anyone. We’d had sex before. He was wearing scrubs. He wasn’t exactly gentle. I’m not sure what he was. He made me feel things I hadn’t felt in a long ... Read More

Fiction / Kim Chinquee