Kim Trevathan

Kim Trevathan is an author, writing professor and one of the few people who has paddled the entire Tennessee River and Cumberland River. A native of Murray, Kentucky, he’s the author of Paddling the Tennessee River: A Voyage on Easy Water (2001), Coldhearted River: A Canoe Odyssey down the Cumberland (2006), and Liminal Zones: Where Lakes End and Rivers Begin (2013), and Against the Current: Paddling Upstream on the Tennessee River (2020). His outdoor columns have appeared in the Daily Times (Maryville, Tenn.), the Metro Pulse (Knoxville), and the Knoxville Mercury. He has published fiction and essays in the Florida Review, the Texas Review, New Millennium Writings, the Distillery, the New Delta Review, and other literary journals. He won the Gemini Magazine prize for flash fiction in 2017. Trevathan has been teaching writing (journalism, creative nonfiction, fiction, and first-year writing) at Maryville College for 22 years.