Kim Carson Bodie
Susan Schulman Literary Agency
My Manuscript Wish List®
Kim joined Susan Schulman in 2025 after years of working thematically and geographically scattered jobs that mostly involved taking words out of the air and putting them on paper. She is interested in reading commercial and upmarket contemporary fiction with a literary bent, horror, slipstream, creative nonfiction, and memoir—particularly projects that feature strong voice, experimental structure, bold risks, and big swings. Kim gravitates toward themes of adolescence, monstrosity, class, innocence, memory, healing, freakishness, community, otherness, identity, the body, the natural world, and the concept of home. She will read anything that takes place at a carnival. Kim received her MFA from the University of Montana, where you can still find her gathering dirt under her fingernails, between the pages of her books, and in the cracks of her computer keyboard. She can usually be spotted alongside her dog, Townes Van Dog.
Submissions should be emailed to kim@schulmanagency.com
Vital Info
Favorite sub-genres:
Accessible Literary Fiction, Adult, Adult Horror, Adult SFF, African Diaspora, African Fantasy, African Sci-Fi, Africanfuturism, Asian American Literature, BIPOC, BIPOC Fantasy, BIPOC Horror, BIPOC Mystery, BIPOC Sci-Fi, Biography & Memoir, Book Club, Books about books, Caribbean Literature, Character-Driven Horror, Climate Fiction, Commercial Women's Fiction, Commercial adult fiction, Commercial and Literary, Cozy Fantasy, Cozy Mystery, Cozy mysteries, Cultural Criticism, Dark Female Friendships, Dark Humor, Dark topics with a light touch, Diaspora Narratives, Disability, Diverse Protagonists, Diversity, East Asian Literature, Environment, Epistolary, Essay collections, Essays, Experimental, Fabulism, Fantasy Grounded in Reality, Female Friendships, Feminism, Feminist, Feminist Horror, Femoir, First Person, Folklore, Found Families, Gothic, Gothic Horror, Grounded, Grounded fantasy, Hauntings, High Concept, High-Concept Literary Commercial Fiction, Historical Fantasy; Fantasy Grounded In Reality, Historical mysteries, Horror Comedy, Immigrant Experiences, Immigrant Voices, Indigenous Futurism, Indigenous Sciences, Intersectional Feminism, Intersectionality, Investigative Journalism, Issue-Driven, LGBTQ+, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIAP, Latine Diaspora, Latinx Fantasy, Latinx Horror, Latinx Sci-Fi, Latinx stories, Layered Rom-Coms and Comedy of Manners with a cultural component, Literary Crossover, Literary Fantasy, Literary Fiction, Literary Horror, Literary Noir, Literary Science Fiction, Literary Thriller, Magic Realism, Magical Realism, Marginalized Voices, Mind/Body/Spirit, Minority Voices, Monsters, Mothers and Daughters, Multicultural, Multiple POV, Multiple Timelines, Muslim, Mythic, Mythic Horror, Mythology, Narrative, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature, Nature Writing, Near future, Neurodiversity, New Adult, New Weird, Noir, Novels in Verse, Outdoors, Own Voices, POC, Personal Development, Pop Culture, Pop History, Pop Psychology, Pop Science, Popular Science/Psychology, Racial Justice, SWANA Fantasy, SWANA Horror, Slipstream, Smart Beach Reads, Social Issues, Social Justice, Social Science, South Asian, South East Asian Literature, Southern Fiction, Southern Gothic, Southern Literary, Space Opera, Speculative, Speculative Fiction, Steampunk, Trauma, Underrepresented Voices, Upmarket Commercial Fiction, Upmarket Fiction, Upmarket Nonfiction, Upmarket Women's Fiction, Urban Fantasy, West African Literature, Westerns, Women's Fiction, afrofuturism, alternate history, award-winners!, book club fiction, books in translation, character-focused fiction, coming of age, commercial, commerical, commerical women's fiction, contemp, contemporary, contemporary women's fiction, crossover, crossover adult, crossover appeal, current affairs, diasporic, diverse, diverse and own voices, diverse heroines, diverse voices, dramedy, eco-fiction, epistolary novels, folklore history, found family, friendship, gender, ghost story, high concept fiction, high-concept science fiction, horror, immigration, inclusive sf/f, indigenous futurisms, international, invisible disability, literary, literary mystery, literary suspense, memoir, mental illness, mythpunk, narrative non-fiction, non-Western fantasy, non-Western historical fiction, non-western settings, queer, queer horror, queer narratives, southern, stories that don't fit neatly into a genre, subversive, thoughtful graphic novels, upmarket genre fiction, upmarket/book club with female protagonist, visible disability, weird fiction, witty
I’d like the next…
Stag Dance by Torrey Peters
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen
Jawbone by Monica Ojeda
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins
Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
Writers and Lovers by Lily King
Butter by Asako Yuzuki
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
Autobiography of Red by Ann Carson
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
How to Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
True History of the Kelley Gang by Peter Carey
Bear Down, Bear North by Melinda Moustakis
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling
The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
