Kimberly Ann Priest is the author of Still Life (finalist for the PANK Little Books contest, forthcoming 2020), Parrot Flower (Glass Poetry Press, forthcoming 2020) and White Goat Black Sheep (FLP, 2018). She is a winner of a 2019 Heartland Poetry Prize from New American Press and her work has appeared in journals including The Laurel Review, The Berkeley Poetry Review, and The New Delta Review. She is a graduate of the MFA program at New England College, former book reviewer for New Pages (2015-2020) and former editorial intern with Sundress Publications. Currently, she serves as an Assistant Professor of First-Year Writing at Michigan State University, an associate poetry editor for the Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, and a reader for Embody at The Maine Review.