The Optimist Shelters in Place

Kimberly Ann Priest is the author of Slaughter the One Bird (Sundress 2021), finalist for the American Best Book Award, as well as the chapbooks Parrot Flower (Glass 2021), Still Life (PANK 2020), and White Goat Black Sheep (Finishing Line Press 2018). Winner of the New American Press 2019 Heartland Poetry Prize, her work has appeared in journals such as North Dakota Quarterly, Salamander, Slipstream, The Berkeley Poetry Review, EcoTheo, Borderlands and many others. She is an associate poetry editor for the Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry and assistant professor at Michigan State University. Find her work at kimberlyannpriest.com.