Reviews & Lists
Vogue, 2025: “Beyond Blume: Mara Brock Akil Shares 9 More Books That Inspired Her Netflix Hit Forever”
Publishers Weekly (starred), 2023: Review of Coleman Hill
Book Page, 2023: Review of Coleman Hill
Booklist, 2023: Review of Coleman Hill
Washington Post, 2023: “10 noteworthy books for September”
Good Morning America, 2023: “15 spectacular new books to read in September”
Christian Science Monitor, 2023: “So many good finds for summer reading”
The Root, 2023: “September 2023 Books By Black Authors We Can’t Wait to Read”
The Millions, 2023: “Most Anticipated: The Great 2023B Book Preview”
Tertulia, 2023: “The Ten Best Books of 2023 Published by Independent Publishers”
Debutiful, 2023: “Can’t-Miss Debut Books You Should Read in September”
Chicago Tribune, 2023: “Books for fall 2023: Our 75 top picks for reading season”
Durham Herald-Sun, 2023: Review of Coleman Hill (print)
Podcasts & Live Conversations
The League of Extraordinary Readers Podcast, 2026: Unveiling Hidden Histories: The Power of Family Stories in Black Literature, in conversation with Jessica Bethel and Shelbey Monae
Watchung Booksellers Podcast, 2026: Episode 63: “Family in Fiction,” in conversation with Toni Ann Johnson
Nantucket Book Festival, 2025: in conversation with Kaley Kokomoor
Sally Wiener Grotta Podcast, 2024: in conversation with Sally Wiener Grotta
Periplus, 2024: How I Wrote This Series in conversation with Yohanca Delgado
LIFTed UNITED, 2024: in conversation with Remica L. Bingham-Risher and Karis McPherson
SwatTalk, 2024: “Biomythography: Creating a Novel Inspired by Genealogy, Memory, and ‘Truth’”
Coleman Hill launch, Center for Fiction, 2023: in conversation with Sarah Jessica Parker and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
SJP Lit Salon, 2023: in conversation with Sarah Jessica Parker
SJP Lit, 2023: “On my aunt and the Savoy in Harlem”
SJP Lit, 2023: “On beginning my family research and census records”
BGC (Brown Girl Collective) Book Club Podcast, 2023: in conversation with Marcie Lynne Thomas
Black & Published Podcast, 2023: in conversation with Nikesha Elise Williams
Totally Booked with Zibby Podcast, 2023: in conversation with Zibby Owens
WHMP, Writers Block with Megan Zinn, 2023: in conversation with Megan Zinn
Lower Cape TV, Artslight, 2023: “Writing Fellow Tells Story of the Great Migration Through Family Lens”
Interviews
Debutiful, 2026: My Reading Life
Craft with Kat Substack, 2026: The Problem with “MFA Voice”
Yours, SJP Lit Substack, 2026: Books that Shaped this SJP Lit Author
Montclair Local, 2025: Baristanet Profile: Kim Coleman Foote
Publishers Weekly, 2023: U.S. Book Show 2023: Kim Coleman Foote and Sarah Jessica Parker
Publishers Marketplace Fall/Winter Buzz Books Editors Panel, 2023: in conversation with Erin Wicks
Provincetown Independent, 2023: “Kim Coleman Foote’s Art of Biomythography”
Swarthmore College Bulletin, 2021: “Scene Change: Artists pivot—and continue to create—under the pandemic’s constraints”
Features, Mentions, etc.
Rolling Out, 2025: Toni Ann Johnson gets raw with ‘But Where’s Home?’
Chicago Defender, 2024: “Kim Coleman Foote’s Literary Journey: From Chicago State to Printers Row”
Periplus, 2024: “Applying to Residencies, Fellowships, and Workshops,” with Diana Khoi Nguyen and Anna Qu
Recorded Readings
Poets & Writers, 2025: Get the Word Out Fall Fiction Reading with Hillary Behrman, Denise Derya Brandt, Sophia Huneycutt, Rachel León, Kat Lewis, Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay, Radhika Singh, Grace Spulak, and Diana Xin
One Breath Rising Reading Series, 2024: Excerpt from Coleman Hill
Left Bank Books, 2024: Kimbilio @ LBB Reading Series with Joseph Earl Thomas
Fine Arts Work Center, 2023: Fellow Fridays with Mark Joshua Epstein and Bhion Achimba
Phillips Exeter Academy, 2021: Bennett Fellow Reading