kathleenkimballbaker
she/her | poet, writer, editor, researcher | Minneapolis, MN, United States
Kathleen Kimball-Baker is a poet and dog-sledding enthusiast in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Arkansas International, Water~Stone, Muleskinner, Magma Poetry, Nimrod Int'l, Poet Lore, The Hopper, Pangyrus, poetsforscience.org, & elsewhere. Her work has been supported by Bread Loaf, Loft Literary Center, & Tremont Institute. A Pushcart nominee, she is compiling a hybrid chapbook about being a biracial Latina dog sledder obsessed with extreme cold and wilderness.
Selected work
I begin to dream of beeswax
Soon
The Arkansas International
I Hear A Stranger Look Inside My Heart
Soon
Cicada Song Press
Supermoon
The Avenue, 2026
the mushers' daughter
Water-Stone Review, 2025
Little Heretic, Age 6
Saint Paul Almanac, 2025
What to Give Away and When
Magma Poetry, 2025
Accomplice
Magma Poetry, 2025
Expert Witness: A Poet Distills the Turning Point Testimony In the Trial for the Murder of George Perry FloydExpert Witness: A Poet Distills the Turning Point Testimony In the Trial for the Murder of George Perry Floyd
Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, 2023
Wildlife Management
Poet Lore, 2023
Secrets and Arrowheads
Poetry South, 2022
Color the Wind
Wild Roof Journal, 2022
Starter Home
Lines + Stars, 2021
If I Could
Tiny Seed Journal, 2021
Eclipse
MockingHeart Review, 2022
This Madness
Welter Journal, 2022
Fallout Shelter | Abandon Journal
Abandon Journal, 2024
Night Inside Your Body
The Nature of Our Times, 2024
As If I Could
Pangyrus, 2024
The DNA of Home — The Hopper | Environmental Lit. Poetry. Art.
The Hopper, 2024
She Feeds the Storm — The Muleskinner Journal
The Muleskinner Journal, 2025