Kimberly Ann Southwick is the founder and Editor in Chief of the literary arts journal Gigantic Sequins. She has a chapbook of poetry, every song by Patsy Cline (dancing girl press, 2014) and has had work published recently by H_NGM_N, Two Serious Ladies, ILK, The Rumpus, Hobart, and elsewhere. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband, the artist Geoff Thompson, and their dog, Jezebel. Visit her website at kimberlyannsouthwick.com and follow her on Twitter @kimannjosouth.
Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it’s very often better at explaining why events happened as opposed to just what happened.