Academic Bio
K.M. Ferebee is currently Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in the John V. Roach Honors College at Texas Christian University, where she teaches topics including the Global War on Terror and climate change. Her current research focuses on the rhetoric and narratives of transnational animal rescue at sites of irregular migration, particularly examining the evacuation of animals from Kabul during and after the 2021 international withdrawal.
She was previously a postdoctoral researcher with the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies at the University of Helsinki and the Narrating the Mesh (NARMESH) Project in the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University. From August 2019 through December 2020, she worked as Assistant Professor of English and Humanities at the American University of Afghanistan.
Music
She previously worked as a violinist with the popular indie rock band Beirut. Her musical work can be heard on the Lon Gisland EP, The Flying Club Cup, and various singles and live tracks.
Now she mostly listens to Afghan folk music and microtonal jams.
Fiction
She is also the author of speculative fiction that has appeared in Strange Horizons, Shimmer, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and on Tor.com, in addition to being anthologized in the 2013 Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy (ed. Rich Horton), Year's Best Weird Fiction Vol. 2 (ed. Kathe Koja), and the 2013 Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror (ed. Paula Guran).