KIMBERLY CAMPANELLO

POET

Bio

Kimberly Campanello's chapbook Spinning Cities was published by Wurm Press in 2010. She was selected to read in the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series in 2011 and was featured poet in the Summer 2010 issue of The Stinging Fly. Her work has also appeared in The Irish Left Review, Eyewear, nthposition, The Cream City Review, Italian Americana, and GulfStream, among other magazines. In 2009, she was a resident at the Fundación Valparaíso in Mojácar, Spain. Kimberly is an assistant editor of Rowboat, a new magazine dedicated to poetry in translation.

She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama and an MA in Gender Studies from the University of Cincinnati. She is completing a PhD in Creative Writing at Middlesex University, London. Kimberly has taught literature and Creative Writing at the University of Alabama, Florida Gulf Coast University, and the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and she is currently teaching poetry writing at the Big Smoke Writing Factory in Dublin.

EVENTS

Apr. 17, 2012 Start of six-session poetry writing course 'The Poetic Sequence' at Big Smoke Writing Factory, Dublin
Apr. 14, 2012 Half-day poetry workshop 'Beginner's Poetry Writing: Fundamentals and Beyond' at Big Smoke Writing Factory, Dublin
Mar. 31, 2012 Poetry workshop and reading at the Glens Centre, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim with fiction writer Sean O'Reilly and The Stinging Fly
Feb 21, 2012 Start of ten-session poetry writing course 'Introduction to Poetry Writing' at Big Smoke Writing Factory, Dublin
Dec. 12, 2011 Reading for launch of The Stinging Fly's New York issue, Dublin
Nov. 15, 2011 Reading for launch of can-can poezine at The Loft Bookshop, Dublin
Nov. 11, 2011 Performance for Mamuska Dublin at La Cat Salons
Oct. 15, 2011 Conference paper at Past Imperfect, Present Tense: Creative Writing in Ireland, Open University, Belfast
Oct. 3, 2011 Reading for the Kilmainham Arts Club, Dublin
Sept. 18, 2011 Reading for the Tonguebox at the Nutgrove Arts Festival in Dublin
June 28, 2011 Reading for the Tonguebox at the Cobblestone in Dublin (Smithfield)
June 10, 2011 Reading for the Speakeast Cabaret at the Hotspot Cafe in Greystones, Co. Wicklow
June 6, 2011 Conference paper at 14th Annual Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference at Imperial College, London
May 12, 2011 Reading for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series at the Irish Writers Centre
Apr. 5, 2011 Reading for Wurm im Apfel Series with Rachel Lehrman