{"id":1251,"date":"2019-09-06T01:43:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T01:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/bio\/kimberly-king-parsons\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T23:44:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T23:44:06","slug":"kimberly-king-parsons","status":"publish","type":"tribe_organizer","link":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/bio\/kimberly-king-parsons\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimberly King Parsons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kimberly King Parsons<\/strong> won a 2020 National Magazine Award for fiction, and her debut collection, <em>Black Light<\/em>, was longlisted for the National Book Award and the Story Prize. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her partner and children; her novel <em>We Were the Universe<\/em> is forthcoming from Knopf in May of 2024.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1255\" src=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Parsons_Kimberly_King-Black-Light-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Parsons_Kimberly_King-Black-Light-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Parsons_Kimberly_King-Black-Light-659x1024.jpg 659w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Parsons_Kimberly_King-Black-Light-768x1194.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Parsons_Kimberly_King-Black-Light-988x1536.jpg 988w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Parsons_Kimberly_King-Black-Light-1318x2048.jpg 1318w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Parsons_Kimberly_King-Black-Light-1140x1772.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Parsons_Kimberly_King-Black-Light-920x1430.jpg 920w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Parsons_Kimberly_King-Black-Light-575x894.jpg 575w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Parsons_Kimberly_King-Black-Light-380x591.jpg 380w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Parsons_Kimberly_King-Black-Light-800x1244.jpg 800w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Parsons_Kimberly_King-Black-Light.jpg 1544w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimberly King Parsons won a 2020 National Magazine Award for fiction, and her debut collection, Black Light, was longlisted for the National Book Award and the Story Prize. She lives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1252,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_organizer"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2150,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1251\/revisions\/2150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}