Kimberly Campanello

Kimberly Campanello's chapbook Spinning Cities was published by Wurm Press (2011). She was selected to read in the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series in 2011 and was featured poet in the Summer 2010 issue of The Stinging Fly. Her poems have been published in the UK, Ireland, and the US. In 2009, she was a resident at the Fundación Valparaíso in Mojácar, Spain.

She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama and an MA in Gender Studies from the University of Cincinnati. She is in the final year of her PhD in Creative Writing at Middlesex University, London. Kimberly has taught literature and Creative Writing at the University of Alabama, Florida Gulf Coast University, the National University of Ireland in Maynooth, Big Smoke Writing Factory in Dublin, the Irish Writers' Centre, and Middlesex University.

(Author photo by Brian Kavanagh)
Words from Kimberly
  • Halloween, South Beach

    Written on 25/11/12

    Halloween, South Beach ... Thou hast left behind Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies; There's not a breathing of the common... read more

  • Squatters

    Written on 25/11/12

    The Squatters The squatters keep building tin houses on my friend's land and he offers me half its value if I go to Brazil with a machete and... read more