Kimberly O'Connor

Kimberly O’Connor's first book White Lung was released by Saturnalia Books in October 2021. Kim received an MFA from the University of Maryland in 2009, where she was a winner of both the Academy of American Poetry student prize and the AWP Intro to Journals contest. She has taught creative writing and literature in middle school, high school, and college classrooms in Colorado, Maryland, West Virginia, and North Carolina. Her poetry has been published in Copper Nickel, Colorado Review, Harvard Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Inch, Slice, storySouth, THRUSH, and elsewhere.