"Anything called red is too dark to write on
but this was the color of the sky that year,
when days no longer fully ended
and every switched-on lamp swelled up
with dark"
— from "An Oral History of the Last Earthquake in the San Joaquin"

Kimberly Kralowec is the author of a chapbook, We Retreat into the Stillness of Our Own Bones (Tolsun Books, forthcoming May 2022). A lawyer by profession, she holds a J.D. from the University of California, Davis, School of Law, and an English degree from Pomona College in Claremont, California. Her awards include the Patrick J. Hopkins Memorial Writing Award and the F.S. Jennings Prize in Expository Writing. Originally from a small town in the San Joaquin Valley, she now lives in San Francisco and has been named one of the Top 100 Women Lawyers in California. Her poems have appeared in journals such as The Night Heron Barks, High Shelf, Star 82 Review, Birdland, and West Trestle Review.

Kim's poetry blog is anapoetics.com. Learn more about her work as an attorney at her law blog, The UCL Practitioner.

Contact her at kimberlyann —at —gmail — dot —com.