KIM ROBERTS is the editor of Beltway Poetry Quarterly and the anthology Full Moon On K. Street: Poems About Washington DC (Plan B Press, 2010). She is the author of three books of poems, Animal Magnetism (Pearl Editions, 2011), The Kimnama (Vrzhu Press, 2007), and The Wishbone Galaxy (Washington Writers Publishing House, 1994), and the nonfiction chapbook Lip Smack: A History of Spoken Word in DC (Beltway Editions, 2010).

Roberts has been featured in 27 anthologies, including The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry (Bloomsbury Publishing), Sunken Garden Poetry (Wesleyan University Press), Letters to the World (Red Hen Press), American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon University Press), The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel (No Tell Books), and The First Yes: Poems About Communicating (Dryad Press). She has published widely in literary journals throughout the US, as well as in Israel, Canada, Ireland, France, Brazil, and New Zealand. Her poems have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Mandarin.

Poems by Roberts have been set to music by an alternative rock band, Arc of Ones, and by classical composer Daron Hagen, and several have been choreographed by Jane Franklin Dance Company. Five of her plays have been produced or published.

Roberts has done extensive research on writers with ties to Washington, DC. She co-edits the website DC Writers' Homes with Dan Vera (first published in December 2011). She is currrently working with the DC Public Libraries on DC By the Book, an online, interactive map of fiction set in Washington, DC.  She presented "Henry Adams in Lafayette Square" at the 2011 DC Historical Studies Conference. For four years, her popular walking tours were an annual feature of The Big Read DC, a program sponsored by the Humanities Council of Washington, DC. Her Big Read DC tours include: "Wide Enough for Our Ambition," a tour of DC's segregated public schools (2010), "New Deal Washington" tour of Foggy Bottom and Downtown (2009), "Jazz Age Stories of the Rich and Scandalous" tour of Dupont Circle (2008), and "Zora Neale Hurston's Washington" tour of Seventh and U Streets (2007). She developed a tour of the greater U Street neighborhood called "The Harlem Renaissance in DC," first presented at the Split This Rock Festival: Poems of Provocation and Witness in March 2008. Her research on Walt Whitman’s ten years as a resident of Washington, DC has been published in The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, as well as being featured in articles in The Washington Post and The Washington Times, on radio programs on WAMU and WFPW, and in panel presentations at Rutgers University, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and at the annual Washington Historical Studies Conference. She was the Coordinator of a city-wide festival in 2005, "DC Celebrates Whitman: 150 Years of Leaves of Grass."

Roberts is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the DC Commission on the Arts, and the Humanities Council of Washington. She was winner of the 2010 Washington On-Line Award for contributions to the Washington, DC arts community and a 2008 Independent Voice Award from the Capital BookFest. She has been a writer-in-residence at fourteen artist colonies: Soul Mountain Retreat, the Edward Albee Foundation, Hambidge Center, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Mesa Refuge, Ucross Foundation, Ragdale Foundation, New York Mills Arts Retreat, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Hidden River Arts Retreat, Artists’ Enclave at I-Park, Blue Mountain Center, and Millay Colony for the Arts.

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