Kimberly Johnson
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Kimberly Johnson is an American poet. She was born in 1971. Raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, she later earned graduate degrees from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and UC-Berkeley.
Johnson teaches courses in creative writing and Renaissance literature at Brigham Young University (BYU).
[edit] Publications
Johnson's first collection of poetry, Leviathan with a Hook, was published by Persea Books in 2002. In 2005, she was awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship from the the National Endowment for the Arts to support the completion of her second collection, A Metaphorical God, which will be published by Persea in 2008. [1] Her work has appeared recently in The New Yorker, Slate, The Iowa Review, and The Yale Review, and her translations from Latin and Greek have been published in literary and academic journals. She has also published a number of scholarly articles on seventeenth-century literature.
[edit] References
- ^ List of 2005 NEA Literature Fellowships in Poetry Retrieved 5-30-07
