Storyteller

Kimberley Graham is a novelist and photographer living in Memphis, Tennessee.

Raised in Mississippi, her novels are deeply shaped by the landscapes, river towns, and quiet histories of the American South.

Working primarily in black-and-white medium format film, her photography explores atmosphere, memory, endurance, and the emotional life of place.

She earned a BFA in Photography and Graphic Design from Memphis College of Art and also studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York and the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland. Her literary work carries the same visual sensibility found in her photography—lyrical, historically grounded, and attentive to the tension between hardship and grace.

Kimberley is married and the mother of four amazing young people.

Her second novel, Morning Star, follows James Edson White—second oldest son of Seventh-Day Adventist Church founders—and his steamboat mission along the Mississippi River in 1894.