Author Kim Roberts will be visiting Marymount University on Monday, October 24th, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Come hear her speak in the Lee Reception Room/Barry Gallery.
Kim Roberts is the author of five books, most recently Animal Magnetism, winner of the Pearl Poetry Prize (Pearl Editions, 2011), and the anthology Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, DC (Plan B Press, 2010). Poems of hers have been published in journals beginning with every letter of the alphabet, and translated into Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Mandarin. She is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Humanities Council of Washington, and the DC Commission on the Arts, and has been a writer-in-residence at thirteen artist colonies. Roberts is the editor of Beltway Poetry Quarterly, and co-editor of the Delaware Poetry Review. She teaches at the University of Maryland.
