Life

Johnson was raised in West Jordan, Utah

West Jordan, Utah

West Jordan is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. West Jordan is a rapidly growing suburb of Salt Lake City and has a mixed economy. According to the 2010 Census, the city had a population of 103,712, placing it as the fourth most populated in the state. The city occupies the...

. She earned her MA in 1995 from the Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...

 Writing Seminars, her MFA in 1997 Iowa Writers' Workshop

Iowa Writers' Workshop

The Program in Creative Writing, more commonly known as the Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, is a highly regarded graduate-level creative writing program in the United States...

, and a PhD in 2003 from University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

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She teaches courses in creative writing and Renaissance literature at Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...

 (BYU). Johnson's academic interests include lyric poetry, John Milton

John Milton

John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell...

, and John Donne

John Donne

John Donne 31 March 1631), English poet, satirist, lawyer, and priest, is now considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are notable for their strong and sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs,...

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Her work has appeared recently in The New Yorker, Slate, The Iowa Review, 32 Poems, and The Yale Review, 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

John Donne

John Donne 31 March 1631), English poet, satirist, lawyer, and priest, is now considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are notable for their strong and sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs,...

's complete sermons.

She is married to poet and essayist Jay Hopler

Jay Hopler

-Biography:He graduated from Purdue University , The Iowa Writers’ Workshop , The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars and New York University .His poetry and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including American Poetry Review, The...

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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. In 2011, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...

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Works

• Leviathan with a Hook, Persea Books, 2002, ISBN 9780892552825
• A Metaphorical God, Persea Books, 2008, ISBN 9780892553426

Translations

• "Barbarians of the North", Arch Literary Journal, Issue #2, Spring 2009
• "How to Steal Honey from Bees", Arch Literary Journal, Issue #2, Spring 2009

• Virgil
  Virgil
  Publius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil in English , was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues , the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid...
  
   Georgics
  Georgics
  The Georgics is a poem in four books, likely published in 29 BC. It is the second major work by the Latin poet Virgil, following his Eclogues and preceding the Aeneid. It is a poem that draws on many prior sources and influenced many later authors from antiquity to the present...
  
  , Penguin Classics, 2009, ISBN 9781846142406

External links

• Author's website
• "A Metaphorical God with Poet Kimberly Johnson", Thinking Aloud, Marcus Smith, 9/29/2008
• "Poetry: Kimberly Johnson", Hammer Readings, 5/14/09
• "Kimberly Johnson", Verse Daily
• "A Metaphorical God", Persea Books
• "Leviathan with a Hook", Persea Books
• "The Georgics", Penguin Classics Catalogue

Readings

• http://jacket2.org/commentary/remaking-it-new