Inside the Collection: Kim Samek dissects I Am the Ghost Here

Inside the Collection: Kim Samek dissects I Am the Ghost Here

What makes a great short story collection? In Debutiful’s latest Q&A series, Inside the Collection, short story writers will take readers through their writing, editing, and sequencing of their debut short story collection.

In I Am the Ghost Here, writer Kim Samek shows readers contemporary life with a twist. Each story strips down the rituals and technologies that structure modern existence and bends them into the surreal. Prior to realising this, her short fiction won a Pushcart Prize and has been featured in GuernicaEcotoneElectric LiteratureNorth American Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, swamp pink, Gulf Coast, Southern Humanities Review, The Threepenny Review, Story, and ZYZZYVA. She also was a writer and television producer whose credits include MTV’s Catfish and PBS’s WordGirl and earned her Emmy nominations.

In our latest “Inside the Collection” Q&A, Samek dissects her debut short story collection, I Am the Ghost Here.

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Debutiful to host “New Arrivals” event at Denver Public Library

Debutiful to host “New Arrivals” event at Denver Public Library

Debutiful will host a new event introducing Coloradans to three of the most exciting new voices in writing, presented by Denver Public Library, on March 13, 2026.

Debutiful’s New Arrivals will feature three recent debut authors discussing why and how they write, their path to publication, and how media influences their work.

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