Welcome my friends!

Here to report that I have several speaking engagements coming up this fall and winter. Please check out my Events page for more details. I had the great opportunity to do historical research at many fantastic institutions over the 2 years it took me to finish my MA thesis. Now I’m going on tour to tell everybody under the sun about the untold history of 19th century New Hampshire sex workers.

This project was intensely emotional, and not just because I had a baby in the middle of the whole thing. I went into this with a liberated feminist frame of mind and ended up hitting the historical brick wall of reality at speed. I was surprised by the tragedy that I found: murder, infanticide, and human trafficking, as much as I was delighted to find madams who made enough money to pursue divorce from abusive husbands and streetwalkers who defied the statistical odds to live happy lives.

Sharing this with you, all of you, and anybody who will listen is so important to me. They say that a man does not die while his name is still spoken, so I am here, humbly, with archival dust on my hands, to put this forgotten piece of New Hampshire history back into the wider narrative of our state. It is a story that deserves to be told and remembered.

Behind the scenes writing on Stella and the Secret Stars continues.

All my best,

Kim