Kimberly Reyes is an award-winning poet, essayist, and second-generation New Yorker whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Associated Press, Entertainment Weekly, Time.com, The New York Post, The Village Voice, Alternative Press, ESPN the Magazine, Jane, NY1 News, The Best American Poetry blog, poets.org, American Poets Magazine, The Feminist Wire, Film Ireland and Columbia Journal, among other places. She is the author of the poetry collections Running to Stand Still (Omnidawn, 2019) and Warning Coloration (dancing girl press, 2018), and her nonfiction book of essays Life During Wartime (Fourteen Hills, 2019) won the 2018 Micheal Rubin Book Award. Kimberly currently lives in Cork as the 2019-2020 Fulbright fellow studying Irish Literature and Film at University College Cork.