The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Kimberly Reyes is a poet, essayist, popular culture critic, and visual culture scholar. She was born in 1977 in Queens, New York City. She obtained a BA in journalism with minors in literature and political science from Lehigh University, an MA in arts and culture journalism from Columbia University, an MA in Irish literature and film from University College Cork , and an MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University. She is currently a PhD candidate in creative writing at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Reyes is the author of Running to Stand Still (Omnidawn, 2019), which was a finalist for the 2020 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award and for the Civil Coping Mechanisms' 2017 Mainline Competition; Warning Coloration (dancing girl press, 2018), which was a finalist for the Two Sylvias Press 2017 Chapbook Competition; Life During Wartime (Fourteen Hills, 2019), which was the winner of the 2018 Michael Rubin Prose Chapbook Award; and vanishing point (Omnidawn, 2023). Her work has also been anthologized in The End of the Golden Gate, Sh!t Men Say To Me, and Love is the Drug and Other Dark Poems. Reyes has received grants, fellowships, residencies, and other awards from the Poetry Foundation, the Fulbright Program, the Academy of American Poets, Tin House Workshops, Culture Ireland, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, New York City Artist Corps, Miami Writers Institute, and the Arts Council of Ireland, among others. Reyes has taught at the Ó Bhéal and the Munster Literature Centre in Ireland, San Quentin State Prison, the Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois, and the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts.

Works Cited

“About.” Kimberly Reyes, kimberly reyes.online.

Reyes, Kimberly. Author Questionnaire. The Puerto Rican Literature Project, 2024.

Reyes, Kimberly. Interview. Conducted by Claire Jiménez and Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, 16 Sept. 2022.