



Kim Harvey is a queer poet, public servant, and dog mom living in Arlington, Virginia with strong heart ties to the San Francisco Bay Area. She was a Reader and Assistant Editor at Palette Poetry from 2018 - 2024. Her poems have been nominated for multiple Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize awards. She is the 1st Place Winner of the 2019 Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award at The Comstock Review where she also won 2nd Prize in 2017. Her work was selected as the Editor’s Choice for Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge in August 2018. She won 3rd Prize in the 2019 Barren Press contest. She has two microchap books: Facing Gladstone from Kissing Dynamite Press and They Say in Your Dreams Everyone & Everything is You from Ghost City Press. She has attended the Community of Writers and Napa Valley Writers Conferences and is aWord Witch in Courtney LeBlanc's Poetry Coven. You can find her poems in SWWIM, Radar, Rattle, trampset, Black Bough, River Mouth Review, Poets Reading the News, Cathexis Northwest Press, The Shore, Juke Joint, iamb, and other journals and anthologies.

Selected Poems
River Mouth Review
Aperture
(https://rivermouthreview.com/issue-2-connection/kim-harvey)
(Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Nominated)
Radar
Say Our Names
(https://www.radarpoetry.com/say-our-names)
Supplicant
(https://www.radarpoetry.com/supplicant)
The Shore
Sometimes I Imagine You Survived
Ars Poetica: What I Discovered in the Pandemic
Self-Portait as 1973
Transit/ory
https://www.theshorepoetry.org/issue-6-full-text

Awards & Recognition
Awards & Recognition
Barren Press Poetry Contest - 3rd Place






Poetry We Admire: Pride

Poetry We Admire: America

Poetry We Admire: Praise

Poetry We Admire: Pride
Readings & Events
No upcoming readings scheduled at this time, but if you are in the DC Metro Area, you might find me at an open mic at Busboys & Poets or St. Elmo's in Del Ray.
Past highlights include being among the featured readers along with Josiah Luis Alderete and Alan Pelaez Lopez at Seeking Asylum held by Poets Reading the News at San Francisco Public Library on November 5, 2019.




Available for readings, panel discussions, creative collaborations, and consultations/feedback on individual poems and manuscripts.












