Kimi Faxon Hemingway is a senior lecturer of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she also coordinates the department’s Bachelor of Fine Arts Program. Named UNCW’s 2024 Lecturer of the Year, Hemingway is an 1898 Legacies and Futures Research Collective Fellow and the founding editor of the award-winning literary journal, Ecotone. Her writing has been anthologized in Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, & Abortion, and Witness, and has appeared in magazines such as Ms, Ecotone, and theNorth Carolina Literary Review. Hemingway is the co-editor of the anthology, Facing Community Change in Navassa.