Kim Dana Kupperman on Clubhouse

Bio

Series Editor, Best American Essays
✍🏽 Writer, reader, editor, scholar, & teacher
💙 Imaginary love child of James Baldwin & Simone Signoret
📖 Founder, Welcome Table Press

📚 AUTHOR:
➡︎ SIX THOUSAND MILES TO HOME (novel)
➡︎ THE LAST OF HER (memoir)
➡︎ I JUST LATELY STARTED BUYING WING (essays)
📝 EDITOR:
➡︎ YOU (anthology of 2nd-person essays)
➡︎ (UN)COMMON SENSE (digital chapbook)
🖋 Handmade book creator
🔍 Genre-bending experimentalist


🙏🏼 Essaying change in troubled times
🗽 Democracy defender
🌈 Community educator (undoing violence & oppression; local food)
🍵 Setting a welcome table for folks

🗿 Dream traveler
💡 Idea curator

💃🏻 Barefoot dancer
🥾 Beach & forest walker
🪐 Sky watcher

🦋 Monarch butterfly friend
🐸 Tree frog sister
🪶 Bird wannabe, otterly happy 🦦
🐘 Adopter of orphan elephants & rhinos🦏
🌻 Gardener & humane landscaper
🌍 Earth warrior: if we don’t save the planet, we can’t do anything
🍆 Mostly vegetarian with a taste for heritage cuisines & storytelling plates 🍽
🥙 Yearning to eat 100% local

📍Recovered New Yorker (currently living on occupied Piscataway land in Maryland)
🇫🇷 Former expat in France (je parle français)

✡️ Grandchild of Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe
✝️ Great-granddaughter of Deaf Catholic immigrants from Eastern Europe
☪️ Married into a Syrian family
🕎 Honorary member of a Persian Jewish family
🕉 Tibetan Buddhist trapped in a Western body

[email protected]
www.welcometablepress.org
www.kimdanakupperman.com