Kimberly Burwick


Kimberly Burwick is an American poet. She is author of Horses in the Cathedral, and Has No Kinsmen. Her poems have been published in many literary journals and magazines including Fence, Kalliope, Barrow Street, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Indiana Review, Hotel Amerika, and The Literary Review. Her honors include the 2007 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund Poetry Prize and fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.
Burwick was raised in Massachusetts and graduated from Worcester Academy. She holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin and an M.F.A. from Antioch University.
Burwick teaches at Washington State University and in the U.C.L.A. Extension Writer's Program. She currently lives in Moscow, Idaho.
Her work Horses in the Cathedral won the Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry.