Kimberly K. Williams is an award-winning poet. She often uses history to inform her poems. 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. Her fourth book, Following the Wagons, is a sequence of poems about pioneering women from the years 1840–1870, published in 2026 by Liquid Amber Press. She is a lecturer at Central Queensland University and is originally from Detroit.
