Kimberly Campanello

Kimberly Campanello was born in Elkhart, Indiana, and is a dual Irish and American citizen based in York. Her most recent project is MOTHERBABYHOME, a 796-page poetry-object comprising conceptual and visual poetry on the St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Ireland. New poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 3:AM, The White Review, The London Magazine, The Fortnightly Review, Cambridge Literary Review and Poetry Ireland Review. She was recently awarded an inaugural Markievicz Award, an Arts Council Ireland Literature Project Award, and residencies at the Heinrich Böll Cottage on Achill Island and the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. She lectures in Creative Writing and supervises PhDs in poetry at the University of Leeds. She is completing her first novel. 

‘[Campanello] is attempting something new, something challenging and inspiring and radical, something that hasn’t been seen before in contemporary Irish poetry. In my opinion, not only does she succeed in this attempt, her work wildly exceeds expectation.’ – Doireann Ní Ghríofa, The Stinging Fly