Kate Wyer

Black Krim Kate Wyer

When Corbina finds a man standing barefoot in a field across from her farmhouse, she makes a choice that will challenge every part of her lifestyle. Wyer's debut novel, BLACK KRIM, follows three characters, in alternating first-person narratives, as they uncover each other's motives and desires, as well as their own. ADVANCE PRAISE: "Heirloom tomatoes lack the hardiness of grocery store hybrid varieties. They are grown in an archaic, inbred fashion; and yet, for all their isolation, they surprise one with their dramatic shapes, colors, and intense flavors-kind of like the characters in Kate Wyer's novel, BLACK KRIM. As the roots of their stubborn, closed systems slowly entangle, their surprising desires and tenderness bloom fiercely from these small, hard seeds." - Jen Michalski, author of THE TIDE KING "Kate Wyer's Black BLACK KRIM is an elegant study of alienation and reconnection-with a warm human heart beneath the Zen-like detachment of its style." - Madison Smartt Bell, author of ZIG-ZAG WANDERER ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Kate Wyer lives and writes in the Baltimore area, attended Goucher College, where she received the Elizabeth Woodworth Reese Prize, and earned her MFA from University of Baltimore. She also won the Women Writing About Women contest sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and was awarded a fellowship to attend the Summer Literary Seminars in Lithuania. Her work can be found in The Collagist, PANK, Keyhole, Wigleaf, Exquisite Corpse, and elsewhere. In addition to her writing, Wyer is the manager of a non-profit within the public mental health system.