Biography

Haven Kimmel was natural around New Castle, Indiana, and was raised in Mooreland, Indiana, the locus of her bestselling memoir, A Girl Known as Zippy: Growing higher Little around Mooreland, Indiana (2001).

Kimmel earned her undergrad degree within English & originative writing from either Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana and a postgraduate degree from either North Carolina State University, where she exposed using novelist Lee Smith. She besides attended seminary at the Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Indiana. She sleep in Durham, North Carolina and New Orleans, Louisiana.

Haven Kimmel was the poet before writing the memoir of her early childhood, The Girl Known as Zippy. A Solace of Allowing Early (2002) & Something Rising (Lightly & Fleet) (2004) come a foremost both novels within Kimmel's plotted "trilogy of place" just about made-up Hopwood County, Indiana. the third book, planned for a 2005 release, is tentatively titled A Utilized Globe. Her more works include the poetic tikes's book, Orville: The Puppy Story (2003), & the retelling of the Book of Revelation in ''Killing the BuddhThe: A Heretic's Bible (2004), edited by Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet (ISBN 0743232763).

Works

2001 A Girl Named Zippy: Growing up Small in Mooreland, Indiana, memoir (ISBN 0385499825) 2002 The Solace of Leaving Early, novel (ISBN 0385499833) 2003 Orville: A Dog Story, children’s book (ISBN 061815955X) 2004 Something Rising (Light and Swift), novel (ISBN 0743247752)

Quotes

the few feet away between Moorel& around 1965 & the city prefer San Francisco around 1965 is about same to the few feet away starlight must travel prior to you consult casually from either a corn field and watch it. (From either The Girl Known as Zippy, p.Two.)

Possibility, eternity, beauty -- none of people words were correct. [...] What he really wanted to say was: own professional people felt this? this phantom life streaking rather a phosphorescent fox at the edges of your systems ruin? (From either A Solace of Allowing Early, p.Forty.)

Orville barked & barked against his chain. & correct midmost of an extended summertime day, whenever he got barked all all about how else he was really a good pooch around a bad mood, you said it he missed that 1-eyed doll, you said it there was something then terrible about the feeling of the chain against a neck, all about changed, because a girl by owning cotton gauze-candy hair enter the little home through the road & Orville fell gaga. (From either Orville: The Puppy Story'', p.Eighteen.)

"It's marriage, family, home, sentimentality, continuity, these are the lies that eat women like a machine." [...] "A Woman-Chipper, can you imagine how that would sell? Everyone, anywhere on the political spectrum, would want one." (From either Something Rising (Weak & Swift), p.126.)