Kim is a James Beard award-winning food essayist, cook, wife, mom, foster-adoptive mom, adoptee, and mountain-biking widow. She writes about food as it intersects with addiction, foster care, adoption, poverty and mental illness. Her work has been featured in publications like Bon Appetite, Food 52, NPR's Desert Companion Magazine, and multiple Best Food Writing yearly anthologies. She lives in Las Vegas with her husband, David, a Grammy-winning, and two-time Tony-nominated circus and live entertainment producer, their four kids and a menagerie of animals.