Visiting Artist Kim White

Kim White '04 is a writer, sculptor, and digital product manager based in New York. She received an MFA in fiction from Columbia University, an MFA in poetry from Hunter College, and was on her way to an MFA in sculpture from the New York Academy of Art before dropping out to sculpt colossal stainless-steel hearts and balloon dogs for Jeff Koons. She is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize at Hunter College, a Bingham Writing Fellowship from Columbia University, and a Forbes Foundation Grant. Her work has appeared in: NANO Fiction, Chain, and Columbia, and is anthologized in Short. She is author of, Scratching for Something, a collection of prose poems. Kim is currently working on a collection of short stories and a novel. The novel, set in a world hijacked by cyborg technology, explores a secret society that protects mythical beasts and human anomalies, and what it means to be human in a world that's losing its humanity.