Kim O’Connor was born and raised in North Carolina and now lives in Golden, Colorado. Her first book White Lung (Saturnalia Books, 2021) was a finalist for the 2021 Colorado Book Award. Kim has 20 years of experience teaching writers of all ages and is currently an adjunct instructor for Colorado School of Mines and Community College of Denver. She received an MFA from the University of Maryland in 2009, where she won both the Academy of American Poetry student prize and the AWP Intro to Journals contest. Her poetry has been published in B O D Y, Copper Nickel, Colorado Review, Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, MoonPark Review, Slice, storySouth, THRUSH, and elsewhere.
The Writes of Spring – Call for Poems
June 8, 2025
