Kimberly Johnson

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Kimberly Johnson (born 1971) is an American poet and Renaissance scholar.

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Life

Johnson was raised in Utah. She earned her MA in 1995 from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars, her MFA in 1997 Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a PhD in 2003 from University of California, Berkeley. [1] [2]

She teaches courses in creative writing and Renaissance literature at Brigham Young University (BYU). Johnson's academic interests include lyric poetry, John Milton, and John Donne. [3]

Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, [4] Slate, [5] [6] The Iowa Review, 32 Poems, [7] The Yale Review, and The Best American Poetry 2020, and her translations from Latin and Greek have been published in literary and academic journals. She has also published a number of scholarly articles on seventeenth-century literature.

She has edited a collection of essays on Renaissance literature, and an online archive of John Donne's complete sermons. [8]

She was married to poet Jay Hopler until his death in June 2022. [1]

Awards

In 2005, she was awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the completion of her second collection, A Metaphorical God. [9] In 2011, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. [1]

Books

Poetry

Criticism

Translations

As editor

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Ben Fulton (May 12, 2011). "Line by line, Utah poet garners a Guggenheim". The Salt Lake Tribune . Retrieved May 14, 2011.
  2. ↑ "BYU professor-poet receives Guggenheim fellowship". Archived from the original on 2012-03-19. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-03-10. Retrieved 2011-05-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ↑ "Crepuscular". The New Yorker . 26 December 2010.
  5. ↑ "Marking the Lambs" Slate, Nov. 2006
  6. ↑ "Catapult", Slate, March 15, 2011
  7. ↑ "Kimberly Johnson: Sonnet". www.32poems.com. Archived from the original on 2009-02-06.
  8. ↑ John Donne's Complete Sermons
  9. ↑ "NEA Writers' Corner: Kimberly Johnson". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  10. ↑ Boyd Tonkin (5 January 2010). "Georgics, By Virgil, translated by Kimberly Johnson". The Independent . Retrieved 10 May 2011.
  11. ↑ "Theogony and Works and Days: A New Bilingual Edition, Translated from the Greek by Kimberly Johnson".
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