Kim Ponders

Kim Ponders, grew up near Boston and graduated from Syracuse University, then worked as a reporter in northern California. In 1989, she attended Officer Training School and was commissioned into the Air Force as a second lieutenant. In 1991, she went to Saudi Arabia with Desert Storm and spent the next five years flying missions out of Saudi Arabia and Turkey, providing air supplies to the Kurds in northern Iraq and monitoring the Iraqi no-fly zone. These experiences formed the basis of her first novel, “The Art of Uncontrolled Flight” (HarperCollins, 2005), a BookSense pick that is being adapted into a screenplay. Ponders holds an M.S. in international relations and an M.F.A. from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. Her second novel, “The Last Blue Mile” (HarperCollins, 2007), has been hailed by the Washington Post, Playgirl, Entertainment Weekly and Alma Magazine, among others.