

Kimberly Ann Priest
Author & Educator
Chapbooks
The Optimist
Shelters in Place
HARBOR EDITIONS
"Through the lens of collective tragedy and the lived experience of a woman alone, these neo-confessional poems balance the ache of imagining families 'sobbing' in hospital parking lots with the personal loss of long isolation, the fresh finality of divorce, and even the tedious need to clean the shower."
LISA FEY COUTLEY, author of tether
Parrot Flower
GLASS POETRY PRESS
In Parrot Flower, Kimberly Ann Priest writes through the process of survival, what it takes for a person to live with trauma and all the real ways in which it manifests—art and casual sex, cutting and therapy, fear and a pair of comfortable shoes. In this collection, we realize that no part of recovering is clean or easy, but as Priest reminds us, "People do you know. [Survive.]"
ERIN ELIZABETH SMITH, executive director of Sundress Publications and the Sundress Academy for the Arts


