Dr. Kendall Klym has won numerous awards for his short stories, which have been published in literary journals including Puerto del Sol, Hunger Mountain, and Fiction International. In addition to winning the Tartt First Fiction Award for Step Lightly, his collection of dance stories, Klym is a three-time honorable mention winner of the Great American Fiction Contest and has won writing fellowships at the Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts and Monson Arts. A former professional ballet dancer, Klym earned a PhD in English, with a concentration in Fiction Writing, from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
