Series Editor, Best American Essays ✍🏽 Writer, reader, editor, scholar, & teacher 💙 Imaginary love child of James Baldwin & Simone Signoret 📖 Founder, Welcome Table Press 📚 AUTHOR: ➡︎ SIX THOUSAND MILES TO HOME (novel) ➡︎ THE LAST OF HER (memoir) ➡︎ I JUST LATELY STARTED BUYING WING (essays) 📝 EDITOR: ➡︎ YOU (anthology of 2nd-person essays) ➡︎ (UN)COMMON SENSE (digital chapbook) 🖋 Handmade book creator 🔍 Genre-bending experimentalist 🙏🏼 Essaying change in troubled times 🗽 Democracy defender 🌈 Community educator (undoing violence & oppression; local food) 🍵 Setting a welcome table for folks 🗿 Dream traveler 💡 Idea curator 💃🏻 Barefoot dancer 🥾 Beach & forest walker 🪐 Sky watcher 🦋 Monarch butterfly friend 🐸 Tree frog sister 🪶 Bird wannabe, otterly happy 🦦 🐘 Adopter of orphan elephants & rhinos🦏 🌻 Gardener & humane landscaper 🌍 Earth warrior: if we don’t save the planet, we can’t do anything 🍆 Mostly vegetarian with a taste for heritage cuisines & storytelling plates 🍽 🥙 Yearning to eat 100% local 📍Recovered New Yorker (currently living on occupied Piscataway land in Maryland) 🇫🇷 Former expat in France (je parle français) ✡️ Grandchild of Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe ✝️ Great-granddaughter of Deaf Catholic immigrants from Eastern Europe ☪️ Married into a Syrian family 🕎 Honorary member of a Persian Jewish family 🕉 Tibetan Buddhist trapped in a Western body [email protected] www.welcometablepress.org www.kimdanakupperman.com