An Interview with Maurice Carlos Ruffin on THE RUMPUS
Maurice Carlos Ruffin: We’re such a storied city, but there haven’t been many people who’ve published short stories about it on a national level, so subconsciously, I was thinking about representing the city and the different ways it manifests itself. In Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex and Toni Morrison’s Sula the community is a character. In Middlesex, it’s Detroit and in Morrison’s work, […]
“Daddies and Sons” by Kim Coleman Foote on THE RUMPUS
When he was a little boy, Jeb Coleman would pick at the scabs on his knees and elbows, imagining how his daddy would suffer before dying. The old man would often get drunk on Four Roses whiskey and start itching to punch everything in sight. Jeb took the brunt of it. His muh, too, when […]
A New Story By Kimbilio Fellow Kim Coleman Foote, Published on ECOTONE
Man of the House by Kim Coleman Foote
On Richard Wright’s THE MAN WHO LIVED UNDERGROUND from London Review of Books
When Richard Wright sailed to France in 1946, he was 38 years old and already a legend. He was America’s most famous black writer, the author of two books hailed as classics the moment they were published: the 1940 novel Native Son and the 1945 memoir Black Boy. By ‘choosing exile’, as he put it, he hoped both […]
A New Story by Kimbilio Fellow Tara Campbell Appears on Havehashad
IN THE CITY OF DRUNK BUTTERFLIES Tara Campbell Our flight was already erratic. You smiled, commenting on our fluttering path, admiring us as beautiful pollinators, but not as someone you would want behind the wheel of a car. So a bunch of us got together and said what the hell, let’s lean into this thing […]
A New Story by Kimbilio Fellow Amina Gautier Appears in TriQuarterly
Dismissal Amina Gautier She waits for me by the curb outside the public elementary school while other kids gather to walk home together. A lucky few get whisked away, ushered into cars far better than mine. It is after three; dismissal’s come and gone. I’m running late but on my way, almost there. This she […]
From the Latest Edition of BLACKBIRD: A New Story by Kimbilio Fellow Amina Gautier
Perish An hour after teaching her last class of the day, Laura sat in her faculty office with her door shut to block out the noise of the English department’s late afternoon bustle. By now, she should have been on her way home to her wife and daughter, but instead of packing her things, Laura […]
