Kim Chinquee grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin and served as a medical lab technologist in the Air Force. She received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, an MA from The University of Southern Mississippi, and an MFA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She’s the author of eight books, most recently Pipette (Ravenna Press, 2022). Her work has been published in hundreds of journals and anthologies including Noon, Conjunctions, StoryQuarterly, Indiana Review, Ploughshares, The Nation Dreaming Awake: New Contemporary Prose Poetry from the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, Buffalo Noir, and others. She’s received three Pushcart Prizes, a Henfield Prize, serves as editor of New World Writing Quarterly, associate editor of Midwest Review and chief editor of ELJ (Elm Leaves Journal). She directs the writing major at SUNY-Buffalo State University, is a competitive triathlete, and lives with her three dogs in Tonawanda, New York.
 

Contact with the Wild
a poetry collection by Kim Chinquee, 
is now available from MadHat Press.