I was born and raised in North Carolin and now live in Golden, Colorado. My first book White Lung was released from Saturnalia Books in 2021 and was a finalist for the 2021 Colorado Book Award.
I have over 20 years of experience teaching and working with writers ages eight to adult. I’m currently an adjunct instructor for Colorado School of Mines and Community College of Denver. Before that, I taught creative writing and literature in middle school, high school, and college classrooms in Maryland, West Virginia, and North Carolina, and later ran Denver’s Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s Young Writers Program.
I received an MFA from the University of Maryland in 2009, where I won both the Academy of American Poetry student prize and the AWP Intro to Journals contest. My poetry has been published in B O D Y, Copper Nickel, Colorado Review, Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, MoonPark Review, Slice, storySouth, THRUSH, and elsewhere.
Kimberly O'Connor 
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