Kimberly Gibson-Tran

Poet

Princeton, TX
Texas US

Author's Bio

Kimberly Gibson-Tran studied linguistics at Baylor and the University of North Texas. She's written critically about poems with "Lines by Someone Else" and has writing appearing or forthcoming in The Bombay Literary Magazine, Passages North, Porter House, Third Coast, Roanoke Review, 3Elements Review, Ink & Marrow, Oracle Fine Arts, The Rush, Creation Magazine, Public School Poetry, The Windhover, Dunes Review, Reed Magazine, Rowayat, Jelly Squid, Saranac Review, Paper Dragon, Thin Air Magazine, Sheepshead Review, Saw Palm, Pandan Weekly, RockPaperPoem, Anodyne Magazine, Passengers Journal, Elysium Review, and The Common Language Project. Raised by medical missionaries in Thailand, she now lives in Princeton, Texas, and works in college counseling. 

Publications & Prizes

Journals:
Anodyne Magazine
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Sheepshead Review
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The Rush
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Prizes won: 

The Poetry in the Arts, Inc., Dr. Jesse T. Airaudi Prize, April 2012 - judged by Susan Stewart

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Sylvia Plath, Shakespeare, Octavia E. Butler, Toni Morrison, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ted Chiang, Charles Wright, Louise Gluck, Cormac McCarthy, Margaret Atwood, Ron Chernow, Karen Joy Fowler, Elena Ferrante, William Virgil Davis, Richard Hugo, Kim Stanley Robinson, Anne Carson
What I'm reading now: 
We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People by Nemonte Nenquimo, บุพเพสันนิวาส by รอมแพง, Scorched Earth: Poems by Tiana Clark, The Listener and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Fluent in: 
English, Thai
Born in: 
FL
Florida
Raised in: 
Nan
Thailand
Nan
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Last update: Apr 03, 2025