Kim Samek is an award-winning author whose work has won a Pushcart Prize (2026) and been cited as a Distinguished Story in Best American Short Stories (2025). Her forthcoming debut story collection I AM THE GHOST HERE will be published by Dial Press February 24, 2026. Her fiction appears in Guernica, Ecotone, Southern Humanities Review, Gulf Coast, Electric Literature, swamp pink, North American Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, The Threepenny Review, STORY, and ZYZZYVA. A native of Seattle, she studied creative writing and German Literature at Stanford University. Her television writing has been nominated for an Emmy Award. She lives in Los Angeles.

Kim Samek is an award-winning author whose work has won a Pushcart Prize (2026) and been cited as a Distinguished Story in Best American Short Stories (2025). Her forthcoming debut story collection I AM THE GHOST HERE will be published by Dial Press February 24, 2026. Her fiction appears in Guernica, Ecotone, Southern Humanities Review, Gulf Coast, Electric Literature, swamp pink, North American Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, The Threepenny Review, STORY, and ZYZZYVA. A native of Seattle, she studied creative writing and German Literature at Stanford University. Her television writing has been nominated for an Emmy Award. She lives in Los Angeles.