![]() Have you always known you would be a writer? Our conversation revealed her to be an exacting craftswoman, someone for whom the articulation of each sentence is an act of listening to the character and knowing just when to leave a story. Her story “ Foxes” appears in The Paris Review ’s Summer 2019 issue, and her debut collection, Black Light, was published this month. However, Parsons’s true gift is couching the savage in the great beauty of her prose. There is also something untamed in her deeply flawed characters, who are constantly caught between reining themselves in and indulging their feral darkness. ![]() Wildness is in her fiction as well the story “Fiddlebacks” begins with three children shaking out their shoes before putting them on, expelling poisonous insects hidden in the toes. ![]() She would pass the time by walking miles in any direction. ![]() When we spoke on the phone, we were interrupted by the cawing of a large bird outside the window of her Oregon home, which sits on a hill surrounded by a forest populated with “loud squirrels, loud birds, and voles.” She grew up in Lubbock, Texas, with generations of ancestors rooted in the nearby cities of Quitaque and Turkey, where unsettled land stretches endlessly. Kimberly King Parsons is a writer who lives in the wilderness. ![]()
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