Kim Farrar is a writer and collagist living in New York City. Her poetry collection, The Impossible Physics of the Hummingbird, is forthcoming from Unsolicited Press in 2025. Her essay, “Why I Never Get Anywhere…” won first prize in New Millennium Writings nonfiction contest, 2024. She is the author of two chapbooks published by Finishing Line Press: The Familiar and The Brief Clear. Her poetry has been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Salamander, Rhino, and New Ohio Review as well as other journals. Her essays have been published in Illness & Grace, Voices of Autism, and Reflections. Her flash fiction has been published in Flash Fiction Magazine. Her full-length manuscripts, The Impossible Physics of the Hummingbird and Calamities of the Natural World, were semi-finalists in Grayson’s poetry contests in 2022 and 2021 respectively. Orbits and Bonds, a chapbook of poems and collages, was a semi-finalist in the New Women’s Voices contest by Finishing Line Press in 2022. In 2020 her poem “Powerful Forces” received an honorable mention in the Gemini Poetry Contest. She is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee.