Kimberly O'Connor

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  • Young Writers Program
  • Poetry
Kimberly O'Connor

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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.

Kimberly O'Connor's Articles

Faculty Spotlight: Interview with Sheryl Luna
The Lookout

Faculty Spotlight: Interview with Sheryl Luna

February 18, 2022

The Lookout

Pandemic Writing Project

March 11, 2021

Here at Lighthouse, we’ve noticed that “How are you?” feels like a cruel question these days.

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2020's Nobel Prize in Literature Winner

October 08, 2020

Reading the news that Louise Glück won the Nobel Prize this morning was the