• Kim Samek
Emmy-nominated comedy writer, producer, and author
Kim Samek is a half-Thai Emmy-nominated comedy writer and television executive producer with TV credits including MTV's Catfish, PBS' WordGirl, and Issa Rae's Sweet Life: Los Angeles for HBO Max. She studied creative writing at Stanford University and, in a previous life, worked for Sony Music. Her short fiction appears or is forthcoming in Catapult, Guernica, Ecotone, Southern Humanities Review, Gulf Coast, Electric Literature, swamp pink, North American Review, The Threepenny Review, and ZYZZYVA. Ecotone has nominated her short fiction for a Pushcart Prize. A native of Seattle, she calls Los Angeles home. She is represented by Martha Wydysh at Trident Media Group.

Short Stories

"Egg Mother" - Catapult | September 2022


"I Am the Ghost Here" - Guernica | January 2023


"The Garbage Patch" - Ecotone | Issue 33 Fall/Winter 2022


"A Nervous Tic Motion Kind of Peace" - Southern Humanities Review 56.2 | June 2023


"Skinny House" - Electric Literature | October 2023


"Teen Mom" - swamp pink | October 2023


"Doors" - Gulf Coast | Winter/Spring 2024 Volume 36 Issue 1


"Return" - North American Review | Spring 2024 Volume 309 Number 1


"Ex Manic Pixie vs. The Zombies" - Chicago Quarterly Review | 39, Spring 2024


"Trash Heap Hero Likes How It's Going" - The Threepenny Review | Spring 2024


"Muscle to Muscle, Toe to Toe" - ZYZZYVA | forthcoming Spring 2025

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Literary agent: Martha Wydysh at Trident Media Group.

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