GET TO KNOW KK WOOTTON

BORN: Cambridge, Massachusetts
HOMETOWN: Starkville, Mississippi
SCHOOLS: NYU, USC, Pacifica Graduate Institute
LIFE HIGHLIGHTS: When @cutepicofmeidkmightdeletelater was born, getting married on a farm, getting kissed by Eartha Kitt
CLAIM TO FAME: Oldest of 70 first cousins
FAVORITE BOOKS: Middlemarch, Girlvert, Confederacy of Dunces, Tess, The Leopard, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Anna Karenina, Pimp, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Excellent Women, Nevermind

At age seventeen, KK Wootton became a movie critic for the Chicago Tribune. She was on the editorial staff of one of the first music websites, SonicNet.com, beginning when it was a BBS at a loft in TriBeCa. Wootton worked as an emerging media consultant at Anonymous Content and Ogilvy & Mather and has taught writing at the University of Southern California and Northwestern’s School of Continuing Studies. Wootton has published non-fiction in the Houghton Mifflin collection Personals and fiction in the Grove Press collection They’re At It Again.