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Kim Magowan

Kim Magowan lives in San Francisco and teaches at Mills College at Northeastern University. She is the author of the short story collection The Last Day (2026), published by Moon City Press; Don't Take This the Wrong Way (2025), co-authored with Michelle Ross, published by EastOver Press, and chosen as one of LitHub's 100 Most Notable Books of 2025; the short story collection How Far I've Come (2022), published by Gold Wake Press; the novel The Light Source (2019), published by 7.13 Books; and the short story collection Undoing (2018), which won the 2017 Moon City Press Fiction Award. Her fiction has been published in Colorado Review, The Gettysburg Review, Passages North, Smokelong Quarterly, Wigleaf, and many other journals. Her stories have been selected for Best Small Fictions and Wigleaf's Top 50. She is the Editor-in-Chief and Fiction Editor of Pithead Chapel.
Song of Chloe P., a Siren

Song of Chloe P., a Siren

Come, come. Sit beside me on this rock; it’s much more comfortable than it looks. Listen to me: all I want is to listen to you. Tell me everything: how you worry about losing your job,  how your boss doesn’t appreciate...

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Tennis Elbow

Tennis Elbow

For thirty-one of their thirty-two years together, Lydia and Meredith shared an evolving dumb joke which started one day in 1992 when Lydia came home from a rehearsal with a rash on her neck and claimed that she had...

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Comorbidity

Comorbidity

When you cook you use every pot, including ones that can’t go in the dishwasher, because I clean; when I cook, you poke my Brussels sprouts with your fork, pronounce them “mushy,” and push aside your plate. You call my...

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Three Sprigs

Three Sprigs

1. When planning your garden, be aware that certain herbs are highly invasive, and may overwhelm a garden, choking other plants. Properly managed and carefully monitored, however, these herbs are both decorative and...

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