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Kim Samek is a half-Thai Emmy-nominated writer and television producer with credits including MTV's Catfish and PBS' WordGirl. She studied German Literature and creative writing at Stanford University. Her stories appear in Guernica, Ecotone, Electric Literature, The North American Review, The Chicago Quarterly Review, swamp pink, Gulf Coast, The Southern Humanities Review, The Threepenny Review, Story, and ZYZZYVA. Her short fiction has won a Pushcart Prize. A native of Seattle, she lives in Los Angeles.
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