About


Kim Dana Kupperman is the series editor of Best American Essays. Author of Six Thousand Miles to Home: A Novel Inspired by a True Story of World War II (Legacy Edition Books, 2018), The Last of Her: A Forensic Memoir (Jaded Ibis Press, 2016), and a critically acclaimed, award-winning essay collection, I Just Lately Started Buying Wings: Missives from the Other Side of Silence (Graywolf Press, 2010), she is the lead editor of You: An Anthology of Essays Devoted to the Second Person (2013) and publisher of the anthology Essaying the Essay (2014).

Ms. Kupperman is the founding editor of Welcome Table Press, an independent nonprofit devoted to celebrating & publishing the essay. She has curated and edited two free pamphlet series, Occasional Papers on Practice & Form and Essaying the Body Electric and an online zine, (un)common sense.

Ms. Kupperman has been a teacher and editor for close to forty years. Currently, she teaches privately. From 2011-2014, she was the Visiting Writer-in-Residence in nonfiction at Fordham University, and from 2010 to 2015, she was a faculty member at Fairfield University's low-residency MFA. She has also taught at West Virginia Wesleyan’s MFA, Johns Hopkins MA in Writing, and Montgomery College and at many writing conferences. She is the former managing editor of the Gettysburg Review, where she also coordinated an annual summer writers' conference. 

Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals and been anthologized in Best American Essays and elsewhere (see publications/ephemera for more information). Awards include the 2013 Normal School Prize, the 2010 Bakeless Prize in Nonfiction, the 2003 Robert J. DeMott Prose Prize from Quarter after Eight, and first place in the 1996 Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay Contest.

Ms. Kupperman is the recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Kenyon ReviewWriter's Workshop, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Center for Book Arts, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

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Representation: Ms. Kupperman is represented by Robert Wilson at Wilson Media.

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Rainbow over the canal in Amsterdam
Rainbow over the canal in Amsterdam
Monarch caterpillar on milkweed in the yard.
Monarch caterpillar on milkweed in the yard.
Check out (un)common sense, a digital chapbook brought to you by Welcome Table Press: http://www.uncommonsensejournal.org
Check out (un)common sense, a digital chapbook brought to you by Welcome Table Press: http://www.uncommonsensejournal.org
Lovely rhino
Lovely rhino
Bobby McFerrin and daughter Madison at the Blue Note. #DivineMusix
Bobby McFerrin and daughter Madison at the Blue Note. #DivineMusix
Let’s keep the ice in Greenland.
Let’s keep the ice in Greenland.
So many ways to interpret & imagine, meaning wise.
So many ways to interpret & imagine, meaning wise.
Mouth of the Klamath River. #big_salmon_place
Mouth of the Klamath River. #big_salmon_place
#BigTree. 1500 years old. Think of all it knows. We have no clue.
#BigTree. 1500 years old. Think of all it knows. We have no clue.
#venerable-old-trees
#venerable-old-trees
Rainbow over the canal in Amsterdam Monarch caterpillar on milkweed in the yard. Check out (un)common sense, a digital chapbook brought to you by Welcome Table Press: http://www.uncommonsensejournal.org Lovely rhino Bobby McFerrin and daughter Madison at the Blue Note. #DivineMusix Let’s keep the ice in Greenland. So many ways to interpret & imagine, meaning wise. Mouth of the Klamath River. #big_salmon_place #BigTree. 1500 years old. Think of all it knows. We have no clue. #venerable-old-trees