BIO
Kim (Freilich) Dower is the
City Poet Laureate of West
Hollywood. Born and raised in New York City she received a BFA in
Creative Writing from Emerson College where she also taught creative
writing. She has published three collections of poetry, all with Red
Hen Press: Air Kissing on Mars, (2010) was on the Poetry
Foundation’s Contemporary Best Sellers list, and was described by
the Los Angeles Times as, “sensual and evocative . . .
seamlessly combining humor and heartache.” Slice of Moon,
(2013), was nominated for a Pushcart, Last Train to the Missing
Planet (2016) was called “unexpected and sublime,” by “O”
magazine. Kim’s work has been featured in Garrison Keillor's, "The
Writer's Almanac," Academy of American Poets, “Poem-a-Day,” and Ted
Kooser's, "American Life in Poetry," as well as in Ploughshares,
Barrow Street, Rattle and Eclipse. Her poems are included
in the anthologies, Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond,
published by The Pacific Coast Poetry Series, an imprint of Beyond
Baroque Books, and Coiled Serpent: Poets arising from the
cultural quakes and shifts of Los Angeles. Kim teaches the
workshops Poetry and Dreaming and Poetry and Memory in the B.A.
Program of Antioch University. She’s also known as Kim-from-L.A.,
the name of her literary publicity company. She lives in West
Hollywood, California.
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