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See how pain comes like a developing image: slowly then all at once.
Ghost then gallop. It burns light into intricate geometry, a two-
dimensional wilderness. It cannot speak language but still utters
semiotically:
I am asking you to study this: who you are when you are burning.
Kimberly Grey is a hybrid, interdisciplinary writer whose work explores memory, trauma, auto-theory, and hybridity. She is the author of the forthcoming book Bewilder Meant (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. 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 is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the graduate program at the University of North Texas.