Kim Wood is a writer, filmmaker, and photographer.
She grew up in Hollywood, California and has lived in
San Francisco, New York, and Berlin.

Her films, based upon the histories of relatively unknown adventurers and eccentrics, have screened internationally in festivals and museums, including the
Sundance Film Festival and Guggenheim Museum,
where she shared the bill with an episode of CHiPs.

Wood received the Silver Hugo from the
Chicago International Film Festival
and the Director's Citation from
Thomas Edison's Black Maria Film Festival.
She received grants from the Film Arts Foundation and the Jerome Foundation, and is a MacDowell Colony Fellow.

Her first novel, Flirting with Death, based upon the life of a Kansas farm girl turned world-famous motorcycle daredevil Lillian La France, will be published in 2013.

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