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Kim was born in Leicester and now lives in Yorkshire. Her first pamphlet If We Could Speak Like Wolves was a winner in the 2011 Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition, and went on to be shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award and the Lakeland Book of the Year. Her first full length collection The Art of Falling (Seren 2015) won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Her second collection All The Men I Never Married (Seren, 2021) won the 2022 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Her first non-fiction book What The Trumpet Taught Me was published by Smith/Doorstop in May 2022, followed by a hybrid book of lyric essays Are You Judging Me Yet? Poetry and Everyday Sexism, published by Seren in 2023. Her forthcoming collection The House of Broken Things will be published by Corsair in May 2026.

Her work has been translated into many languages as part of the Versopolis project and she was a judge for the 2018 National Poetry Competition and the 2020 Forward Prizes.

She was awarded a Vice-Chancellor’s Bursary in 2016 to carry out PhD research at Manchester Metropolitan University, and completed her doctorate in ‘Poetry and Everyday Sexism’ at in March 2020. She now works as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and is the Deputy Programme Leader of the MA and MFA in Creative Writing.

She hosts a monthly reading series for Wordsworth Grasmere, and writes a Substack “Shaw and Moore” with the poet Clare Shaw.