Kimberly King Parsons

Oregon Book Award winner Kimberly King Parsons is the bestselling author of We Were the Universe, a Dakota Johnson Book Club pick ranked #2 on TIME Magazine’s Best Books of 2024. The New York Times praised the debut novel as “a profound, gutsy tale of grief’s dismantling power,” and it was a best book of 2024 in Elle, Oprah Daily, Marie Claire, Marie Claire UK and many others. Parsons’s debut collection, Black Light, was longlisted for the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Fiction, the Story Prize, and the Texas Institute of Letters Fiction Award. Parsons teaches fiction at Pacific University and lives in Portland with her family.