Kimberly Grey Ph.D.

Kimberly Grey is a hybrid, interdisciplinary writer whose work explores memoir and memory studies, the personal essay, and creative research. She is the author of two genre-defying books: Bewilder Meant (forthcoming from Persea Books, 2027) and the essay collection A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing (2023). She has also published two acclaimed poetry collections: Systems for the Future of Feeling (2020) and The Opposite of Light (2016), which won the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize.

Grey’s work engages the intersections of auto-theory, trauma studies, and the medical humanities. Her writing has appeared in A Public Space, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, Narrative, Tin House, PN Review (UK), and elsewhere. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford University and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbria, Italy, as well as a Taft Research Grant from the University of Cincinnati, where she earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Creative Writing.

She serves on the advisory board of the Pegasus Physician Writers at Stanford Medical Center and has taught at universities across the United States. She is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the graduate program at the University of North Texas.

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