- Kimberly Johnson
Kimberly Johnson is an American poet. She was born in 1971. Raised in
Salt Lake City ,Utah , she later earned graduate degrees from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, theIowa Writers' Workshop , andUC-Berkeley .Johnson teaches courses in creative writing and Renaissance literature at
Brigham Young University (BYU).Publications
Johnson's first collection of poetry, "Leviathan with a Hook", was published by Persea Books in 2002. In 2005, she was awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship from the
the National Endowment for the Arts to support the completion of her second collection, "A Metaphorical God," published by Persea in 2008. [ [http://www.nea.gov/features/Writers/2005poetry.php?layer=1 List of 2005 NEA Literature Fellowships in Poetry] Retrieved 5-30-07] Her work has appeared recently in "The New Yorker", "Slate", "The Iowa Review", and "The Yale Review", and her translations from Latin and Greek have been published in literary and academic journals. She has also published a number of scholarly articles on seventeenth-century literature.References
External links
* [http://www.perseabooks.com/leviathanwithahook.html Persea Books]
* [http://www.nea.gov/features/Writers/Johnson.html The National Endowment for the Arts Writers' Corner]
* [http://www.slate.com/id/2152060 "Marking the Lambs" Slate, Nov. 2006]
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