Kimi Cunningham Grant
BOOKS
SILVER LIKE DUST
FALLEN MOUNTAINS
IN THE PRESS
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. . . reminiscent of the best Appalachian writers . . . Grant wields her sense of place like an extra character.
BookRiot
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An intense and engaging portrait of characters driven by—and bound by—the secrets of their pasts . . . an absorbing mystery as well as a gracefully layered story of death and loss in a small town.
Allen Eskens, USA Today bestselling author of The Life We Bury
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Kimi Cunningham Grant... uses marvelous economy to play out this small-town thriller, which is ingeniously plotted to the end; mystery lovers accustomed to a few final pages of languid wrap-up can forget it.
Shelf Awareness
The Midtown Scholar
BIO
Kimi Cunningham Grant is the author of two books. Silver Like Dust is a memoir chronicling her Japanese-American grandparents and their internment during World War II. Her second book, Fallen Mountains, is a literary mystery set in a small town in Pennsylvania, where fracking has just begun. It will be released in March, 2019. Kimi is a two-time winner of a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Prize in Poetry and a recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship in creative nonfiction. Her poems and essays have appeared in Literary Mama, RATTLE, Poet Lore, and Whitefish Review. She studied English at Bucknell University and Messiah College. She lives, writes, and teaches in Pennsylvania.
