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Kimberly Gibson-Tran

she/they | Read, Write, Bookclub, Workshop | Dallas, TX, United States

Kimberly Gibson-Tran studied linguistics at Baylor and the University of North Texas. She's written critically about poems with "Lines by Someone Else" and has recent creative writing appearing or forthcoming in Midway Journal, Baltimore Review, The Bombay Literary Magazine, Passages North, Porter House, Third Coast, Dunes Review, Reed Magazine, Rowayat, Saw Palm, and elsewhere. Raised by medical missionaries in Thailand, she now lives in Princeton, Texas, and works in college counseling.

Selected work

Cover of 2River

"The Club" & "In Your Past Life in the Future"

2River, 2025

Poetry
Cover of Blood Tree Literature

A Truce

Blood Tree Literature, 2025

PoetryProse Poetry
Cover of Rust and Moth

My Husband Says All the Stars We See Are Dead

Rust and Moth, 2025

PoetryFree Verse
Cover of The Bombay Literary Magazine

'Object Lesson' & Other Poems

The Bombay Literary Magazine, 2025

PoetrySestina
Cover of Roanoke Review

"Bluetown," "Ascension," and "Sunfall on the Sierra"

Roanoke Review, 2025

PoetryFree Verse
Cover of Midway Journal

Holes

Midway Journal, 2025

PoetryConcrete
Cover of Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast

Genesis 1

Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, 2025

PoetryProse Poetry
Cover of Baltimore Review

What Hope Is There

Baltimore Review, 2025

PoetryFree Verse
Cover of Stone Circle Review

The Idea of Lightning

Stone Circle Review, 2025

PoetryFree Verse
Cover of Porter House Review

The Point of View

Porter House Review, 2025

PoetryConcrete
Cover of Hole In The Head Review

Crossing I-75

Hole In The Head Review, 2025

PoetryFree Verse
Cover of Saranac Review

The Lesser Light; Deliverance

Saranac Review, 2024

PoetryFree Verse
Cover of Arcturus

Night-fires; Cinderella's Hands

Arcturus, 2025

PoetryFree Verse
Cover of The Core Review

Self Portrait as Silkworm

The Core Review, 2025

PoetryFree Verse
Cover of Public School Poetry

Iphigenia; A Memory of Violence; Little Houses for Little Gods

Public School Poetry, 2025

PoetryFree Verse
Cover of Jelly Squid

The Chicken

Jelly Squid, 2024

NonfictionFlashMemoir
Cover of Pandan Weekly

Survival Instinct

Pandan Weekly, 2025

NonfictionEssayMemoir
Cover of Paper Dragon

The Bats of Wat Pho

Paper Dragon, 2024

NonfictionEssayMemoir
Cover of RockPaperPoem

The Night Market

RockPaperPoem, 2024

PoetryFree Verse
Cover of Elysium Review

For Mom, who wanted a poem about bike rides and autumn leaves

Elysium Review, 2024

PoetrySonnet

Projects

Education · 2012-2015

Lines by Someone Else: the Pragmatics of Apprompted Poems

My thesis uses linguistic Politeness Theory to chart speech acts of intertextual poems with titles like "Poem Beginning with a Line by John Ashbery."

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