Kim Carson Bodie is a literary with Susan Schulman Literary Agency.

Kim joined the agency after years of working thematically and geographically scattered jobs that mostly involved taking words out of the air and putting them on paper.

Kim is a generalist, and interested in virtually all types of fiction and nonfiction.

In fiction, she likes: BIPOC Literature, BIPOC Mystery, Bookclub, Caribbean Literature, Commercial, Contemporary, East Asian Literature, Family Saga, Fantasy, Folklore, General, Gothic, Graphic Novel, Horror, LGBTQ, Literary, Magical Realism, Neo-Western, New Adult, South Asian Literature, South East Asian Literature, Speculative, Speculative Literary, Upmarket Speculative, West African Literature, Western, Women’s Fiction

In nonfiction, she likes: Feminism and women\’s issues, Health, History, Journalism, LGBTQ, Memoir, Pop Culture, Relationships and family, Science, Self-help, Spiritual.

She is interested in reading commercial and upmarket contemporary fiction with a literary bent, horror, slipstream, creative nonfiction, and memoir—particularly projects that feature strong voice, experimental structure, bold risks, and big swings. Kim gravitates toward themes of adolescence, monstrosity, class, innocence, memory, healing, freakishness, community, otherness, identity, the body, the natural world, and the concept of home. She will read anything that takes place at a carnival. Kim received her MFA from the University of Montana, where you can still find her gathering dirt under her fingernails, between the pages of her books, and in the cracks of her computer keyboard. She can usually be spotted alongside her dog, Townes Van Dog.