Kimberly Johnson
Kimberly Johnson is an American poet and Renaissance scholar.Life
Johnson was raised in West Jordan, Utah. She earned her MA in 1995 from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars, her MFA in 1997 Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a PhD in 2003 from University of California, Berkeley.
She teaches courses in creative writing and Renaissance literature at Brigham Young University. Johnson's academic interests include lyric poetry, John Milton, and John Donne.
Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Slate, The Iowa Review, 32 Poems, 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.
She has edited a collection of essays on Renaissance literature, and an online archive of John Donne's complete sermons.
She is married to poet Jay Hopler.Awards
In 2005, she was awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the completion of her second collection, A Metaphorical God. In 2011, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship.Books
Poetry
- Leviathan with a Hook, Persea Books, 2002,
- A Metaphorical God, Persea Books, 2008,
- Uncommon Prayer, Persea Books, 2014,
Criticism
- Made Flesh: Sacrament and Poetics in Post-Reformation England, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014,
Translations
- Virgil, Georgics, Penguin Classics, 2009,
- Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days, Northwestern University Press, 2017.
As Editor
- Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry, Yale University Press, 2013,
- Divisions on a Ground: Essays on Renaissance Literature in Honor of Donald M. Friedman, George Herbert Journal Special Series and Monographs, 2008,
