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Kimberly Ann Priest (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of First-Year Writing at Michigan State University’s Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures department. A neurodivergent writer and poet, she focuses on gender-based trauma, ecopoetics, and therapeutic writing. Her work explores themes of survival, rewilding, and healing through nature and artistic expression. Priest has authored multiple poetry collections including Wolves in Shells (winner of the 2024 Backwaters Prize) and Slaughter the One Bird, which addresses childhood sexual assault and domestic violence.
Her research integrates feminist narratives of trauma, migration, and environmental ethics. Priest has received residencies from Monson Arts and Proximity Writers House, and served as an associate editor for the Nimrod International Journal. Awards include the 2019 Heartland Poetry Prize and Brooklyn Girls Books Prize. She actively advocates for survivors through writing and participates in initiatives linking nature with healing.
Teaching responsibilities include courses like Writing as Inquiry and Moral Issues in the Arts and Humanities. Her work appears in journals such as Copper Nickel and Beloit Poetry Journal, and will be featured in Bloomsbury Academic’s Environmental and Nature Writing textbook.
