Kim Gek Lin Short is the author of the lyric novels The Bugging Watch & Other Exhibits and China Cowboy, both from Tarpaulin Sky Press. Her debut hybrid collection, The Residents, was published by Chicago's dancing girl press. Her work in hybrid poetics appears in anthologies such as Narrative (Dis)Continuties: Prose Experiments by Younger American Writers (Moria Books) and &Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing (Lake Forest College Press), as well as numerous literary journals.