Kim Shuck is a San Francisco based citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She has worked for over 40 years as a poet and visual artist. Kim holds an MFA in textiles and served as the 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco. Main themes in her work are mathematics, traditional South East Native culture, and the environment. Shuck is solo or co-author of 13 writing collections; editor, co-editor, or edit curious for 12 books; and appears in an excessive number of collections of various sorts. Kim has received numerous awards and fellowships including a Pen Oakland Censorship Award, an inaugural National Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, and a Groundbreaker Award from the Northern California Book Awards.
She has been awarded grants for her artwork from the Haas Fund and the San Francisco Arts Commission, as well as a residency for the de Young Museum. Shuck is currently finishing a visual and literary project about some of the extinct, extirpated or endangered species from the Pacific Coast. Her most recent poetry collection is the chapbook November Dance Shirt. You can learn more about Kim here.