Literate Chicks Bios

Kim developed a love for reading after discovering Ramona the Pest and Pippi Longstocking as a child, and continues to read pretty much anything in print, including billboards, traffic signs and milk cartons. Kim likes books that challenge conventional wisdom and are thought-provoking, and despises flat characters. Her favorite authors include Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks and Annie Proulx, and her favorite character is Scout from To Kill A Mockingbird. When not devouring a book, you can find her on the golf course, at the gym or shoe shopping. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona with her husband and a very spoiled Basset Hound.

Suzanne has an insatiable appetite for books and travel. She likes to alternate reading literature she can sink her teeth into with mystery novels set in exotic locations, and has little patience for predictable plot lines. Nick Bantock, Jasper Fforde, Martha Beck, and Jan Willem van de Wetering are among her favorite reads, as well as some Hispanic literature and the Harry Potter series. Suzanne is a half-Czech photographer/travel writer/foreign language buff at heart, a piano player in a previous life, and a number cruncher by day. She hangs out with her horseracing, cat wrangling husband in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.