Kimberly Gibson-Tran studied linguistics at Baylor and the University of North Texas. Their writings are forthcoming in t'ART, The Baltimore Review, The Bombay Literary Magazine, Rust & Moth, 3Elements Review, Passages North, Porter House Review, Reed Magazine, Third Coast, Thin Air Magazine, Oracle Fine Arts, and Saw Palm. Raised in Thailand, she now lives in Princeton, TX (far North Dallas) with her husband and cats and works in college counseling.
Selected work
- Nonfiction
4
- Poetry
9

"The Lesser Light" and "Deliverance"
Saranac Review, 2024

The Chicken
Jelly Squid, 2024

The Night Market
RockPaperPoem, 2024

"Iphigenia," "A Memory of Violence," and "Little Houses for Little Gods"
Public School Poetry, 2025

For Mom, who wanted a poem about bike rides and autumn leaves
Elysium Review, 2024

The Voyagers
Rowayat: A Literary Journal, 2024

Promised Land, a Cartography
The Common Language Project, 2024

Survival Instinct
Passengers Journal, 2022

The Bats of Wat Pho
Paper Dragon, 2024

Tattoo
Ink & Marrow, 2025

Apology Pantoum
The Rush Magazine, 2025

Sonnet for a Starship
Sheepshead Review, 2024

Lines by Someone Else: the Pragmatics of Apprompted Poems
University of North Texas, 2015