Kim Wozencraft (born in Dallas, Texas) is an American author. She is best known as the author of the internationally best-selling novel Rush, on which a 1991 film directed by Lili Fini Zanuck and starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jason Patric, Greg Allman and Sam Elliot, was based.
Events in her real life, while employed by the Tyler, Texas Police Department, were the inspiration for the novel Rush. Wozencraft and her partner, Creig Matthews, served time in federal prison for civil rights violations as a result of falsified evidence presented during drug arrests made in Tyler, Texas in the late 1970s.
Kim co-edited Slam, the book, a companion edition to the award winning 1998 film. She was executive editor at Prison Life magazine, has written for HBO Films, and her work has appeared in The Best American Essays, Texas Monthly, New York Newsday, the Los Angeles Times, and various literary magazines and anthologies.
Kim holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University