Kim Chinquee received her MA in creative writing from the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers, her MFA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a Henfield Prize. She lives in Buffalo, New York, where she teaches creative writing.

• Introduction; Seven Thousand Years of Wine; Wine and Persian Poetry; Under a New Sun - The Darioush Winery; At the Table; Index.

"There is always a roiling subtext beneath the seemingly placid surfaces and tones of Chinquee's pieces, a dichotomy which speaks to deep truths about the human condition. Kim Chinquee is a true artist with a true vision, and Pretty is a brilliant book." -- Robert Olen Butler "These brief snapshots of conversations manage to seem not like fragments of lost wholes but like vivid distillations of essential dramas, each a variation on the shared subject of thwarted intimacy." -- Carl Dennis