Kim Parko is a mother who gathers in the hedge. She is the author of The Grotesque Child (Co-winner 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Press Book Prize) and Cure All (Caketrain Press, 2010). Recent work has appeared in Boston Review (2018 Poetry Prize), Black Warrior Review, The Brooklyn Review, Diagram, Salt Hill, Poetry, Best Small Fictions 2023, and Hayden’s Ferry Review. She is a creative writing professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
