About Kim Chernin

Kim Chernin, Ph.D. has won acclaim for her numerous works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including The Obsession, In My Mother’s House (Nominated for Chronicle Critics Award and Chosen as Alice Walker’s Favorite Book of the Year in 1983 New York Times), The Flame Bearers (1986 New York Times Notable Book) and National Best Seller The Hungry Self. She has appeared on Phil Donahue, Good Morning America and The Today Show, and was featured in the PBS documentary "If Women Ruled the World: A Washington Dinner Party" hosted by Canada's first female prime minister, the Honourable Kim Campbell, and 19 guests from diverse cultural, ethnic, generational, and professional backgrounds, sharing their experiences and observations as trailblazers in male dominated fields and to explore the prospects for full gender equity. She has been featured on dozens of radio stations across the U.S., including NPR, KQED Forum and Larry King Radio. Her articles have appeared in New York Times Magazine, Focus Magazine and Tikkun, and her work has been featured in New York Times Book Review, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, LA Times, Newsday and more. A recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts in Fiction, Kim lives in Northern California with her partner, Renate Stendhal.