Kim Roberts

Alum 1998

Kim Roberts is an award-winning poet, literary historian and editor residing in Washington, DC. She is the author of five books of poems, editor of two anthologies and co-editor of the web exhibit DC Writers’ Homes. She is the founder of two literary journals.  She established Beltway Poetry Quarterly in 2000 (and served as editor of the journal through the end of 2019). And she co-founded of the Delaware Poetry Review in 2007 (which published through 2017).

Kim is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the DC Commission on the Arts and HumanitiesDC. She has been awarded writer’s residencies at eighteen artist colonies and retreats, including Blue Mountain Center, Ragdale Foundation, Soul Mountain Retreat and the Edward Albee Foundation, as well as the Mesa Refuge.

Read more about Kim and her work at https://www.kimroberts.org.