Kim Henderson is the author of The Kind of Girl, which won the Seventh Annual Rose Metal Press Short Short Chapbook Contest. Her stories have appeared in Tin House, H_NGM_N, Cutbank, River Styx, Chamber Four, The Southeast Review, New South, and elsewhere. She lives with her husband on a mountain in Southern California, where she chairs the Creative Writing program at Idyllwild Arts Academy.
You’re on a deserted island but luckily you found your three most favorite books, what are they?
I think for deserted island reading, I’d want to have Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino and Nabokov’s Lolita, because every time I read those books I find something new. The Alphabet in the Park by Adelia Prado would be the book I survived on, though.
What phrase/quote would you (or do you!) have tattooed on your body?
None—it involves needles!
What contemporary writer excites you the most?
If I have to pick just one, George Saunders.
What does independent literature mean to you?
Variety!
What color is the sky?
Oddly winter white for September.