Kimberly Campanello was born in Elkhart, Indiana, and is a dual Irish and American citizen living in York. Her poetry publications include Consent, Imagines and Strange Country (both on the sheela-na-gig stone carvings), Hymn to Kālī (her version of the Karpūrādi-stotra), and running commentary along the bottom of the tapestry. MOTHERBABYHOME, a collection of 796 conceptual and visual poems on the St. Mary's Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co. Galway, was published by zimZalla Avant Objects.
Kimberly's poems have appeared most recently in Poetry Ireland Review, The White Review, and The Cambridge Literary Review and The Poetry Review.
A long sequence on her experience of Young Onset Parkinson’s ‘Moving Nowhere Here’ was most-read poem in Granta in 2023.
Her prose has appeared in The London Magazine, Tolka and Somesuch Stories.
She represented the UK in Munich at Klang Farben Text: Visual Poetry for the 21st Century, a three-day visual poetry festival inspired by the international concrete poetry movement of the 1950s and 60s. Her visual poetry features in the international anthology Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry published by Timglaset. Her asemic writing and autofiction was most recently exhibited in at HAUS Vienna and is published in Praxis (Dostoyevsky Wannabe).
Kimberly received a Markievicz Award from Ireland's Arts Council and the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for (S)worn State(s), a poetry collaboration with Dimitra Xidous and Annemarie Ní Churreáin (forthcoming from The Salvage Press) and an Arts Council Ireland Literature Project Award for sorry that you were not moved, a digital writing collaboration with Christodoulos Makris and Fallow Media. She recently received an Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice Award to foster her writing on chronic illness/disability.
She is Professor of Poetry and a member of the Poetry Centre at the University of Leeds. Kimberly is represented by Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary.