Kim Hohman is a writer with a lifelong suspicion of the official version.
She writes toward what is omitted, inherited, or quietly revised — the tension between what happened and what got said about it.
Her current project, Flood City, is an investigative memoir that excavates a single alley in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where identity was engineered through proximity, silence, and myth across generations. A town known for surviving catastrophe reveals subtler disasters on closer inspection.
By the time you reach 53, you have smelled nearly everything.
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About
Kim Hohman grew up in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in a narrow alley where her parents, grandparents, and neighbors formed the entire known world. She left, and kept leaving — moving across the country and around the world as a military spouse, collecting new places while the earlier ones stayed fixed in her body.
She has spent her life dissecting the simple version of things. From race to religion, family to community — even sports fandom — she has always suspected that the stories we're told, including the ones about ourselves, are incomplete in ways we rarely examine until something forces us to.
Something forced her to. A DNA discovery in adulthood reorganized what she thought she knew about her own origins, her family, and the alley she grew up in. Flood City, her current project, is the result.
She is also the author of The Colors of Love: The Black Person's Guide to Interracial Relationships. She holds a degree in chemistry and a graduate degree in public health, and came to serious writing the way most of us come to the things that matter — sideways, and then all at once.
She now lives on 40 acres in the Rocky Mountains — a purchase whose symbolism has never been lost on her — with her high school sweetheart, using it as their home base while continuing the adventure they've been on for 36 years. Their kids are grown. And there is a new grandson who has no idea what he just walked into.
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Her work has been developed in workshop settings including the Omega Institute with Cheryl Strayed, and has been selected for an advanced workshop with Ingrid Rojas Contreras at the 2026 Lighthouse Writers Lit Fest.
