About Kimberly
Kimberly Davis is a poet and prose writer whose work has appeared in Mid-American Review, The Iowa Review, Nimrod International Journal, Cairn, The Briar Cliff Review, Literal Latte and other fine literary journals. Formerly a practicing attorney, Kim has her undergraduate degree from Brown University, her JD from Boston University School of Law, and her MFA from Emerson College. She writes Kim's Craft Blog, a blog about creative writing craft and the writing life.
Kim's poem "Alchemy" has won the 2009-2010 James Wright Poetry Award sponsored by Mid-American Review. Kim's book of poems, Girl in the Woods, has also been named as a finalist for the 2010 Tupelo Press/Crazyhorse Award for a First or Second Book of Poetry. Kim's poem "Thumbprint on Estate Papers" previously won First Prize in Poetry and The Benefactor's Prize at the 2007 Whidbey Island Writers Conference. Her poem "King Alfreds, First Light" was nominated by Nimrod for Best New Poets 2007. Kim's short story "Spice" was a prizewinner in Literal Latte's annual fiction contest.
Kim grew up with roots deep in the Adirondack foothills of Upstate New York. Her parents were both raised on dairy farms north of Utica, in the small town of Salisbury Center, New York. She relocated to the Boston area for college and graduate school, and now lives in historic Hingham, Massachusetts on Boston's South Shore with her husband, Steve Rider, and son Daniel.