Kimberly Gibson-Tran is an emerging American writer who has published 37 poems and 4 essays—most of those within the last year. She studied linguistics and creative writing at Baylor University and the University of North Texas, writing critically, in her master’s thesis, about apprompted poems with "Lines by Someone Else."
Raised by medical missionaries in Thailand, her essays and poems often address themes of displacement, cultural longing, and religious curiosity. Her recent creative writing appears or is forthcoming in The Bombay Literary Magazine, Baltimore Review, Passages North, Porter House, Third Coast, Creation Magazine, Public School Poetry, Dunes Review, Reed Magazine, Rowayat, Saranac Review, Anodyne Magazine, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Princeton, Texas, and is an active participant in the Dallas Stone Soup workshops and the Rattlecast prompt poetry readings of Rattle Magazine. She is working on her first poetry manuscript, tentatively titled The Voyagers.
Kimberly's work has been published in Across Latitude & Language by Delhi Poetry Slam, a global anthology of poets celebrating diverse voices from around the world.