Kim Barnes’ memoir, In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country, was a finalist in 1997 for the Pulitzer Prize in biography/autobiography and received the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association award that year. She is author of a second memoir, Hungry for the World, and a novel, Finding Caruso. She is also co-editor and author of Kiss Tomorrow Hello: Notes from the Midlife Underground by 25 Women over 40. She currently teaches at the University of Idaho.