[3] In 1970, shortly after the end of her marriage, King met Charles Bukowski and offered to make a sculpture of his head.
[1] The incident is detailed in Bukowski's novel Women, whose leading character, Lydia Vance, is based on King.
[1] The same year, King left Los Angeles for Phoenix, because of what she described as "one extended nervous breakdown".
[2] In 2009, she sold 60 love letters written to her by Bukowski at auction in San Francisco's PBA Galleries.
[1] The same year, in order to be nearer to her grandchildren, King moved from Phoenix into an apartment in the Sunset District of San Francisco.
[1] In September 2009, she was one of the three poets in the presentation Tales of Bukowski & the Late 1960s LA Poetry Scene: A Reading & Report by Key Poet/Participants at Bird & Beckett Books & Records in San Francisco.
Her play Singing Bullets was staged as part of a showcase by Phoenix's Metro Arts Institute.