Kimberly Grey is the author of three books: A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing: Essays (2023), Systems for the Future of Feeling (2020), and The Opposite of Light (2016), winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Prize from Persea Books. She has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship in Umbria, Italy, and a Taft Research Fellowship from the University of Cincinnati, where she completed her PhD in Comparative Literature and Creative Writing. Her work has appeared widely in journals such as A Public Space, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, and PN Review (UK). She serves as an advisory board member for The Pegasus Physician Writers at Stanford Medical Center and teaches for the Stanford Summer Institutes program. She is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the graduate program at the University of North Texas.