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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