Experience
MFA Creative Writing in Poetry and a focus on creative non-fiction essay.
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Teaching experience since 2011 College Writing I and II undergrad level with Kent State
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University Geauga Campus, Fundamentals of English Grammar, Developmental Writing.
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Lakeland Community College, Ashland Second Chance Correctional Facility Undergrad
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Writing, University od Akron Senior Lecturer, NAIITS: An Indigenous Learning Community
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Built the curriculum for an Indigenous Research and Writing course since 2018 for Master level.
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George Fox University Seminary Master of Arts Intercultural Studies.
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NAIITS: An Indigenous Learning Community PhD Student, Forum for Theological Exploration
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Fellow, Louisville Institute Dissertation Writing Fellow, last year of writing.
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Member, EFA Editors Freelance Association
ABOUT KIMBERLEE
I am from the Ihanktonwan Nation (Yankton Sioux Tribe), in southeastern South Dakota. We are the smallest tribe in South Dakota. At age two, I was adopted off the reservation under false pretenses and was raised with a loving family in northeastern Ohio. It would take nearly four decades to reunite with my first family. Both my creative writing, in the forms of poetry and creative non-fiction are nature themed and about life experiences, as any artist creates with a heart filled with passion for telling the truth of what happened. My scholarly writing also focuses on themes of what it means to be Indigenous and raised away from my Cultural Knowledges. Because my path to find the way home was meant to happen, I write about reclamation of culture and ways of knowing and being.
There is a lifetime of learning ahead of me and I do not walk the path alone and the lessons are not just for me. They are to share with the communities I have varied degrees of contact and connection with for the benefit of becoming whole and to usher in healing.