K.K. Fox is a writer, teacher, and editor living in Nashville, Tennessee. She studied English at the University of Tennessee and holds an MFA in Creative Writing and MA in Teaching from the University of Memphis where she served as the managing editor of River City Magazine (now The Pinch).

Her work has appeared in Iron Horse, Nelle, Joyland, Kenyon Review Online, Tupelo Quarterly, and others. She served as a preliminary judge for the Flannery O’Connor Award (2018) and has attended Sewanee’s Writers Conference (2013, 2017), The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop (2014, 2016) and the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts (2021).  

Winner of the Memphis Magazine Short Story Competition (2005), she’s also been a finalist for the Iron Horse Literary Review (2020) and Third Coast Fiction prizes (2020), and semi-finalist for the Tupelo Quarterly’s Prose Contest (2016); Zoetrope’s Screenplay Contest (2020); and Story Magazine’s Story Foundation Prize (2022). 

K.K. teaches Literature and Composition at Austin Peay State University. And she is the fiction editor for the Los Angeles Review.

Represented by Wendy Levinson

Photography: Jeremy Cowart
Fox painting: Turner de Feria Art