Kim Nelson

[from Poets United website]
Kim Nelson is an award-winning author whose published works include the non-fiction A Desert Gardener's Companion (Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2001), the recipient of Foreword Magazine's Book of The Year Award, and Southwest Kitchen Garden (Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2002). She spent 5 years writing a regular column for Sunset magazine, and many more as a freelance writer.

Under the pseudonym Kate McLaughlin, she wrote Mommy, I'm Still in Here: One Family's Journey with Bipolar Disorder, which was published by Behler Publications in 2008.

Finishing Line Press released a chapbook of Nelson's poetry, Woman's Evolution, in May 2011.

Nelson lives in Tucson, Arizona where she writes, creates art, gardens, plays, and generally loves her life.