The stories in <i>Some Birds Nest in Broken Branches</i> masterfully and poetically chart trauma, loss, grief--the ways these things warp, bend, and break those they touch--while staying rooted in the heart. Kip Knott is a virtuoso of the particular, and his hands are just as nimble with obsession and compulsion as they are with the strange and surreal. This book is a testament to brokenness not as a flaw but as a facet; in the coal that lines many of Kip's vivid settings, there are ample diamonds to be found.<br> --Nick Olson, <i>The Brother We Share</i>