Kimberly K Williams is an award-winning poet. Her poems are often historically based and about every-day women of the 19th century. Her second book, Sometimes a Woman (Recent Work Press 2021), about the madams and prostitutes who helped to settle the US ‘Wild West’, won the 2022 WILLA Literary Award for Poetry. Her third book, Still Lives (Gazebo Books 2022), won a Canberra Critics Award in 2023 and was short-listed for the ACT Poetry Book of the Year. A natural performer, she is a lecturer at Central Queensland University and is originally from Detroit.
