Kimberly Grey

"A mother can dislocate you. No one tells you this, so I will do the telling. For years I've wandered around in separations; a legless knee floating in distinctive clicks." from A MOTHER IS AN INTELLECTUAL THING: ESSAYS

Kimberly Grey is the author of three books. She's been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship,  and a Taft Research Grant from The University of Cincinnati, where she earned a PhD.

"No way to hold you and so/ I do what the pines do:/ not be trees but be full/ of want and waiting/ and detachment, dement—I so wish to de-miss you." No System for Pining from SYSTEMS FOR THE FUTURE OF FEELING: POEMS