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Kim Cross

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Kim Cross is a New York Times best-selling author and journalist known for meticulously reported narrative nonfiction. A full-time freelance writer, she has bylines in the New York Times, Nieman Storyboard, Outside, Bicycling, Garden & Gun, CNN.com, ESPN.com, and USA Today. Her work has been recognized in “Best of” lists by the the New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review, The Sunday Longread, Longform, Apple News Audio, and Best American Sports Writing. She teaches Feature Writing for Harvard Extension School and lives in Idaho.

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* In Ozark, Alabama, circa 1986. Shelley McLaughlin Hoerner (left), Mellisa Henderson McLaney (right), and performed this dance, to Glenn Miller's "In the Mood," in several beauty pageants, not as contestants, but as half-time entertainment during intermission. My dance teacher, Molly Mizell Comin, says this photo was actually from a Carroll High Sc

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“In each step was a thousand journeys, a thousand acts of courage and faith.... One breath, one step, one day at a time. For somethings in life, there is no way around -- you have to go through them.”
Kim Cross, What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley

“mater, the Auburn Tigers. In Alabama, college football is a few prayers shy of religion, and a family containing fans of both the Tigers and the Tide is a house divided. In Alabama, “Roll Tide!” and “War Eagle” can mean anything from “Congratulations on the birth of your first child” to “A curse upon your children’s children!” In Alabama, loving thy enemy as thyself is one thing, but loving the other side of the Iron Bowl is the business of Mother Teresa. Today”
Kim Cross, What Stands in a Storm: A True Story of Love and Resilience in the Worst Superstorm in History

“In Alabama, college football is a few prayers shy of religion, and a family containing fans of both the Tigers and the Tide is a house divided. In Alabama, “Roll Tide!” and “War Eagle” can mean”
Kim Cross, What Stands in a Storm: A True Story of Love and Resilience in the Worst Superstorm in History

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