
About Kim Horner
Kim Horner is author of the memoir Probably Someday Cancer (University of North Texas Press, 2019) and her work has appeared in publications including So It Goes, Parhelion and The Texas Observer. Kim, a former newspaper reporter, earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from The University of Arkansas at Monticello and is a PhD in literature candidate at The University of Texas at Dallas, where she teaches writing part time.
Kim spent 21 years as a journalist at newspapers including The Dallas Morning News, the Arlington Morning News, Texas Lawyer, The North County Times and the Chula Vista Star-News.
Select Publications
FLARE Magazine
April 18, 2026
So It Goes
The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum * Library
"Big. Breaking. News"
2025
The Texas Observer
"The Guardian Angel of Laughlin Drive"
Dec. 7, 2022
805
July 21, 2021
Bright Flash Literary Review
Tangled Locks
"Run Like a Girl," "Blood Coming Out of Her Wherever"
July 15, 2022
Typehouse
"Robert"
Spring 2022
Minnow Literary Review
2022
Kaleidoscope
2021
Medium
"Facing Down a Probably Someday Cancer"
2019
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