Author
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kimberly is a native Floridian. She has an MA in English from Florida Gulf Coast University and an MFA from University of Massachusetts Amherst's Poet's and Writer's Program. Her stories have been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes, and have appeared in PANK, Drunken Boat, Gargoyle, and elsewhere. Her story "Baba Yaga's House of Forgotten Things" won a 2013 Best of the Net Award. "One For the Crow' was included in Ellen Datlow's Recommended Horror List of 2019.
Her debut story collection, Worm Fiddling Nocturne in the Key of a Broken Heart, published by Burrow Press, is a winner of the Florida Book Award Gold Medal for Fiction and a Rumpus Book Club Selection.
PRAISE FOR WORM FIDDLING NOCTURNE…
“Stories pulsing with imagination and incarnate joy… Lojewski too, as Padgett Powell said of Barry Hannah, has her ear to the oracle hole in the ground.” –JEFF PARKER, author of Ovenman
“Magic realism meets bildungsroman… In just a few pages, Lojewski creates deeply imaginative and textured worlds. However mundane the plights of her characters—a crush on a boy, a tense mother-daughter relationship—those surreal environments make magic of the moments.” –KIRKUS REVIEWS
“Channeled through the swampy terrain of fairy tale and folklore, these stories of misfits and runaways will open and break your heart by their searing and unsentimental honesty.” –JAMES BROCK, author of Nearly Florida
“Delightfully subversive… Often teetering on the boundary between dream and nightmare, this collection is a satisfying and eerie journey into wild realms.” –FOREWORD REVIEWS
In this wildly imaginative debut collection, whimsical fairy tales of princesses and farm girls turn dark, and dark tales of mistreated sideshow freaks turn whimsical. An itinerant marionette falls prey to a lusty mesmerist. An alcoholic camp counselor is haunted by her dead best friend. A juvenile delinquent languishes in a boot camp run by authoritarian grandmas. Be they human monsters or reluctant moth-girls, the outcasts that populate these eleven compelling stories all long for escape, community, acceptance, and self-discovery.
IN THE PRESS
"Magical realism meets bildungsroman.
In just a few pages, Lojewski creates deeply imaginative and textured worlds. However mundane the plights of her characters—a crush on a boy, a tense mother-daughter relationship—those surreal environments make magic of the moments.
Eleven enchanted and enchanting stories of change."
KIRKUS
EVENTS
Upcoming Events
- Sat, Feb 2912211 Walsingham RdFeb 29, 2020, 10:00 AM EST12211 Walsingham Rd, 12211 Walsingham Rd, Largo, FL 33778, USALearn the Ins and Outs of Publishing: Speaker Panel with Kimberly Lojewski
- Fri, Feb 21World Golf Village Renaissance ResortFeb 21, 2020, 10:15 AM – 11:15 AMWorld Golf Village Renaissance Resort, 500 S Legacy Trail, St. Augustine, FL 32092, USAFlorida Book Award Winners: Researching, Crafting, Submitting and Promoting Award-Winning Fiction. With Tara Lynn Masih and Gale Massey
- Thu, Oct 24UT Plant HallOct 24, 2019, 1:00 PMUT Plant Hall, 374 UT University Dr, Tampa, FL 33606, USAA panel of authors discuss their award-winning works.
- Tue, Oct 01Lil IndiesOct 01, 2019, 8:00 PM – Oct 02, 2019, 10:00 PMLil Indies, 1036 N Mills Ave, Orlando, FL 32803, USALocal writers share new work inspired by the last 30 days of news.
- Sat, Jul 20Emerald City Comics Games ToysJul 20, 2019, 6:15 PM – 7:30 PMEmerald City Comics Games Toys, 4902 113th Ave N, Clearwater, FL 33760, USAFlorida Writers Discuss Getting Inspiration from the Unusual: Nerdier Than Thou
- Fri, May 17Orange County Convention Center - West CMay 17, 2019, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PMOrange County Convention Center - West C, 9800 International Dr, Orlando, FL 32819, USAWomen in Genre: Speakers Panel
- Sat, Apr 131001 S Gadsden StApr 13, 2019, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT1001 S Gadsden St, 1001 S Gadsden St, Tallahassee, FL 32301, USAFlorida Book Award winners panel
- Fri, Dec 071123 Thomasville RdDec 07, 2018, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST1123 Thomasville Rd, 1123 Thomasville Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32303, USAMidtown Reader is very excited to welcome author Kimberly Lojewski for a reading and signing of her debut short story collection.