We lord ourselves and we find ourselves, and then we know whom we are. Kimberly A. McKenzie-Klemm was born to Dr. Robert Wayne Klemm and Casandra Lee McKenzie in 1970 on a United States Air Force Base in Arizona that no longer exists. Much of her childhood was spent moving around the United States of America. Her cultural identity was formed from a mixture of Mid-Western and Southern USA values. She has lived in Arizona, Michigan, Texas, Florida, Illinois, Georgia, Alabama, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. Her childhood family included two brothers, born two years and seven years younger with birthplaces in Michigan and Texas respectively. Family continuity in living mobility as a child created a voracious reader in Kimberly until she reached the age of fifteen.

In the fifth grade, public school teachers put together opportunities for Kimberly A. McKenzie-Klemm to begin exploring the endeavors of a writer. One of…