Kim Shuck is a writer, visual artist, curator, frustrated mom and recovering sarcastic. Her first solo book of poetry, Smuggling  Cherokee, was published by Greenfield Review press in 2005 and won the  Diane Decorah Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas.  Recent work has been included in the anthologies New Poets of the  American West and I Was Indian . In June 2010 Kim had a month long co- residency at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.