Kimberly Connor-Reyes (previously published as Kimberly Reyes) is a poet, essayist, cultural critic, and Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Miami. She is the author of three poetry collections published by Omnidawn: Bloodletting (2025), longlisted for the Maya Angelou Book Award and a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Awards; vanishing point. (2023), which includes the award-winning poetry film “We Are All Drowned Out”; and Running to Stand Still (2019), a finalist for the Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award. Her other books include Warning Coloration (2018), a finalist for the Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Competition, and Life During Wartime(2019), winner of the Michael Rubin Prose Book Award.

Her poetry, essays, and journalism have appeared in The Atlantic, The Associated Press, Poets.org (Academy of American Poets), The Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Stinging Fly, and Entertainment Weekly, among other publications. Her work explores race, gender, popular culture, and the intersections of personal experience and political power.