Biography
Photo credit: Gerry Kingsley (2021)
Kim Fahner lives and writes in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. She has published two chapbooks, You Must Imagine the Cold Here (Scrivener, 1997) and Fault Lines and Shatter Cones (Emergency Flash Mob Press, 2023), as well as five full books of poetry, including: braille on water (Penumbra Press, 2001), The Narcoleptic Madonna (Penumbra Press, 2012), Some Other Sky (Black Moss Press, 2017), These Wings (Pedlar Press, 2019), and Emptying the Ocean (Frontenac House, 2022). Her sixth poetry collection, The Pollination Field (Turnstone Press), will be published in Spring 2025.
Kim is the First Vice-Chair of The Writers' Union of Canada (2023-25), a full member of the League of Canadian Poets, and a supporting member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada.
She was Poet Laureate for the City of Greater Sudbury from 2016-18.
​
​
In March 2021, Kim's poem, "Beekeeping," won first place in the League of Canadian Poets' National Broadsheet Competition. Recently, Kim was awarded second place in the CNF category of Prairie Fire's 2023 McNally Robinson Booksellers Contest for her essay, "Before She Went Away." She was also a finalist in The Fiddlehead's 2023 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize for her poem, "In the Bag I Brought Home from Palliative Care the Night my Mother Died."
​
She has written poetry book reviews that have been published in Prairie Fire, Arc Poetry Magazine, Herizons, The Fiddlehead, & periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics.
Kim is also an editor for Consilience, an online journal that explores the spaces where the sciences and arts meet.
​
Poetically, and philosophically, her areas of interest include eco poetry and ekphrastic poetry.