Kim Samek is a half-Thai, Emmy-nominated comedy writer who studied creative writing at Stanford. She has written and produced over a dozen hit shows including PBS’s WordGirl, MTV’s Catfish, and Issa Rae's Sweet Life: Los Angeles. In a previous life, she worked in marketing at Sony Music. She was a fellow at the 2020 Tin House literary workshop. Her fiction appears or is forthcoming in Catapult, Guernica, and Ecotone. She is working on a collection of short stories and a novel. A native of Seattle, she has lived in Berlin and Brooklyn and calls Los Angeles home.