Kimberly Reyes is the author of five books spanning poetry and nonfiction. Her most recent collection, Bloodletting (Omnidawn, 2025), was longlisted for the Maya Angelou Book Award. Her previous books include Running to Stand Still (Omnidawn, 2019), a finalist for the Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award; vanishing point. (Omnidawn, 2023), which features the International Poetry Film Festival Award-winning poem "We Are All Drowned Out"; Warning Coloration (dancing girl press, 2018), a finalist for the Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Competition; and the essay collection Life During Wartime (Fourteen Hills, 2019), winner of the Michael Rubin Prose Chapbook Award.
Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Associated Press, The Stinging Fly, Entertainment Weekly, Time.com, The Village Voice, ESPN The Magazine, RTÉ Radio, The Irish Examiner, Film Ireland, Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, and Academy of American Poets publications including American Poets, Poem-a-Day, and Poets.org. Her writing has been supported by the Poetry Foundation, Tin House, CantoMundo, the Arts Council of Ireland, Culture Ireland, and other organizations.
Before turning to creative writing full time, Reyes worked as a music and entertainment reporter, radio producer, advertising copywriter, and Silicon Valley technology writer. She is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at the University of Miami, where she teaches poetry in the undergraduate and MFA programs.