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Kimberly Sheridan is a nonfiction writer. Her work is forthcoming or appears in Entropy, The Big Smoke, Monologging, The Midst, River Styx, and in the University of Hell’s essay collection, 2020* The Year of the Asterisk. She wrote a column Tattoo Ink for The Big Smoke USA and is an author interviewer for Abandon Journal. Kimberly’s Substack, Double Game, explores the intersection of art and life.
She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Eastern Washington University and served as the managing editor of Willow Springs, an award-winning journal that has published over a thousand writers, including Tobias Wolff, Yusef Komunyakaa, Roxane Gay, Charles Bukowski, Joyce Carol Oates, and WS Merwin.
Kimberly was a panelist for an event at Spokane’s 2022 Get Lit! festival and has attended Cheryl Strayed’s Esalen Writer’s Camp and Squaw Valley Writers’ Conference. Prior to the MFA program, she studied with the poet and coach, Marty McConnell.
Born a Jersey girl, and after many years in New York City, Los Angeles, and Spokane, Kimberly relocated to Wellington, New Zealand in 2022.
Her many other lives include a degree in illustration from the School of Visual Arts and careers as a Jeff Koons sculpture technician, tattoo shop-girl, fashion illustrator, interior painter, advice writer, social media manager, restaurant manager, personal trainer, and fascial stretch therapist.
