Dr. Kim Jensen is a Baltimore-based writer, poet, educator, translator, and activist who has lived in California, France, and Palestine. Her books include an experimental novel, The Woman I Left Behind, and two collections of poems, Bread Alone and The Only Thing that Matters. She earned her BA in Literature from the University of California, San Diego, her MA in English from San Diego State University, and her PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University in the U.K. She studied French literature at the Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3.

She was recently a finalist for the New Millennium Writing Awards, Fordham University’s Poets Out Loud Prize, the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize, and the New American Press Poetry Prize. Active in transnational peace and social justice movements for decades, Kim’s work has been featured in many anthologies, journals, and magazines, including, Gulf Coast, MQR, Boulevard, Lana Turner, Modern Poetry in Translation, Transition: The Magazine of Africa and the Diaspora, Extraordinary Rendition: Writers Speak Out on Palestine, Gaza Unsilenced, Bomb Magazine, and many others. In 2001, she won the Raymond Carver Award for short fiction.

Contact Kim: jensenkim0404@gmail.com