Kim’s CV

BIO:

Kim Goldberg is an award-winning poet, journalist and author living in Nanaimo, British Columbia. She is the author of eight full-length books of poetry and non-fiction, as well as the creator of numerous hand-built books and book-art objects. Her Red Zone collection of poems about urban homelessness has been taught in university literature courses. Her previous collection, Ride Backwards on Dragon, was a finalist for Canada’s Gerald Lampert Award. Her 2016 book, Undetectable, chronicles her journey with Hepatitis C using haibun poetry. Her most recent book, Devolution, was described as a “ferocious collection” by the Vnacouver Sun. Her poetry and speculative short fiction have appeared in magazines and anthologies around the world. As an issue-oriented journalist specializing in environmental topics, social justice, militarism, and media ownership, Kim has had more than 2,000 articles published in newspapers and magazines in North America and abroad. She holds a degree in Biology from the University of Oregon and is a passionate birdwatcher, nature lover, and trail blazer.

Kim Goldberg’s Publications

BOOKS BY KIM GOLDBERG

• Devolution (2020, Caitlin Press, Qualicum Beach, British Columbia)
• Undetectable (2016, Pig Squash Press, Nanaimo, British Columbia)
• Red Zone. (2009, Pig Squash Press, Nanaimo, British Columbia)
• Ride Backwards on Dragon: a poet’s journey through Liuhebafa. (2007 Leaf Press, Lantzville, British Columbia; re-issued 2011 by Pig Squash Press, Nanaimo, British Columbia)
• Where to See Wildlife on Vancouver Island. (1997, Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, British Columbia)
• Vox Populi: Getting Your Ethnic Group on Community TV. (1993, New Star Books, Vancouver, British Columbia)
• Submarine Dead Ahead! Waging Peace in America’s Nuclear Colony. (1991, Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, British Columbia
• The Barefoot Channel: Community Television as a Tool for Social Change. (1990, New Star Books, Vancouver, British Columbia)

ANTHOLOGIES KIM HAS APPEARED IN

• Refuse: CanLit in Ruins (2018, Book*Hug Press, Toronto, Ontario)
• Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology (2018, Mansfield Press, Toronto, Ontario)
• Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology (2018, UGA Press, Athens, Georgia)
• Please Hear What I’m Not Saying (2018, Isabelle Kenyon, UK)
• Canadian Ginger: an anthology of poetry & prose by and about redheads (2018, Oolichan Books, Fernie, British Columbia)
• Undead: A Poetry Anthology of Ghosts and Ghouls (2017, Apex Book Company, Lexington, Kentucky)
• A Change of Climate (2017, Sam Illingworth, UK)
• Walking on Lava: Selected Works for Uncivilised Times (2017, Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, Vermont)
• The Poet’s Quest for God (2016, Eyewear Publishing, London, England)
• Superhero Universe: Tesseracts Nineteen (2016, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, Calgary, Alberta)
• 100 Lightnings (2015, Paroxysm Press, Adelaide, Australia)
• Scarecrow. (2015, World Weaver Press, Alpena, Michigan)
• Make It True: Poetry from Cascadia. (2015, Leaf Press, Lantzville, British Columbia)
• Cascadia. (2015, Leaf Press, Lantzville, British Columbia)
• Dark Mountain Books #5, #6, #7, #9. (2014, 2015, The Dark Mountain Project, England)
• Imaginarium 3: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing (2014, ChiZine Publications, Toronto, Ontario)
• The Urban Green Man: An Archetype of Renewal. (2013, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, Calgary, Alberta)
• Force Field: 77 Women Poets of British Columbia. (2013, Mother Tongue Publishing, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia)
• Beautiful Women. (2013, Lipstick Press, Gabriola Island, British Columbia)
• Poems from Planet Earth. (2013, Leaf Press, Lantzville, British Columbia)
• Kamesan’s World Haiku Anthology on War, Violence and Human Rights Violation. (2013, Kamesan Books, Templeton, California)
• For Rhino in a Shrinking World. (2013, The Poets Printery, East London, South Africa)
• 111 West Coast Literary Portraits. (2012, Mother Tongue Publishing, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia)
• Canada’s Raincoast at Risk: Art for an Oil-Free Coast. (2012, Rainforest Conservation Foundation, Sidney, British Columbia)
• Living Artfully: Reflections from the Far West Coast. (2012, The Key Publishing House, Toronto, Ontario)
• Poems for an Oil-Free Coast. (2012, Red Tower Bookworks, Victoria, British Columbia)
• Igniting the Green Fuse: Four Canadian Women Poets. (2012, Above & Beyond Productions, Vancouver, British Columbia)
• Imagination & Place: Weather. (2012, Imagination & Place Press, Lawrence, Kansas)
• Here Be Monsters #6. (2012, Here Be Monsters, Montreal, Quebec)
• Can You Here Me Now? A Tribute to Jamie Reid on his 70th Birthday. (2011, Blue Window Editions)
• Close to Quitting Time: An Anthology Celebrating Work. (2011, Ascent Aspirations Publishing, Nanoose Bay, BC)
• Shifting Sands: Jewish Women Confront the Israeli Occupation. (2010, Whole World Press, Bellevue, Washington)
• Zahir Anthology. (2010, Zahir Publishing, Encinatas, California)
• I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights. (2009, Lost Horse Press, Sand Point, Idaho)
• Lavanderia: A Mixed Load of Women, Wash and Word. (2009, San Diego City Works Press, San Diego, California)
• Regreen: New Canadian Ecological Poetry. (2009, Your Scrivener Press, Sudbury, Ontario)
• Rocksalt: An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry. (2008, Mother Tongue Publishing, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia)
• Crossing Lines: Poets Who Came to Canada in the Vietnam War Era. (2008, Seraphim Editions, Hamilton, Ontario)
• Tesseracts Eleven: Amazing Canadian Speculative Fiction. (2007, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, Calgary, Alberta)
• Witness to Wilderness: The Clayoquot Sound Anthology. (1994, Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver British Columbia)

MAGAZINES FEATURING KIM’S POETRY, FICTION & ART

American Journal of Nursing

Ascent Aspirations

Astropoetica

Augur

Big Smoke Poetry
Broken Pencil
Cahoots
Calyx

Cascadia Review
Chimera

ChiZine
Cimarron Review
Dandelion
ditch poetry
Dove Tales

Dream Catcher
Event
Filling Station
Front
Gar
Geist
Humanist Perspectives
Istanbul Literature Review
Journal of Martial Arts & Healing

Journal of Renga & Renku
Lake
Literary Review of Canada

Magnolia
Many Mountains Moving
Matrix
Neon Highway
Nimrod International Journal

OJAL (Open: Journal of Arts & Letters)
On Spec
Our Times
Out of the Blue

peculiars
Poetry is Dead

Politics/Letters
Post Road
Prairie Fire
Prism International
Quarter After Eight
Rampike

Rattle

Riddle Fence

Ryga

Shearsman
Stitches
Stony Thursday Book
subTerrain

Switched-On Gutenberg
The Arabesques Review

The Cabinet of Heed
The Capilano Review
The Dalhousie Review
The New Quarterly

Transition

Uneven Earth
Vallum
Voices Israel
West Coast Line

Women & Environments
Word
Zahir Tales

 

SELECTED MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPERS WHERE KIM’S JOURNALISTIC WORK HAS APPEARED

Canadian Geographic
Nature Canada
Georgia Straight
The Progressive (US)
BBC Wildlife Magazine (UK)
New Internationalist (UK)
Vancouver Sun
Victoria Times-Colonist
Columbia Journalism Review (US)
Canadian Dimension
This Magazine
Beautiful British Columbia
Herizons
Monday Magazine
Sustainable Times
Pacific Tribune
Canadian Marine Mammal Journal
BC Environmental Report
Nuclear Times (US)
Journal of Martial Arts & Healing (US)

KIM’S PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

The Writers’ Union of Canada
League of Canadian Poets
Speculative Fiction Canada
Federation of BC Writers
Creative Non-Fiction Collective
Canadian Women in the Literary Arts
Wordstorm Society of the Arts
Haiku Canada
Cascadia Poetry Festival Advisory Board
Praxis Centre for Screenwriters