Across her writing and performance in whatever form it takes, Kimberly Campanello’s abiding preoccupation is with the power of language to ‘change states’ in all senses of the phrase – changing our understandings of the law and the State, changing our emotional-physical-spiritual-intellectual states, and changing its own state as each word shifts and morphs with every use and encounter.

Kimberly Campanello is the author of the poetry-object and durational performance MOTHERBABYHOME (zimZalla, 2019). She is an inaugural Markievicz Award winner from Ireland's Arts Council and the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for (S)worn State(s) (The Salvage Press, 2024) with Dimitra Xidous and Annemarie Ní Churreáin and an Arts Council Ireland Literature Project Award for sorry that you were not moved (2022), an interactive digital poetry publication in conversation with Calvino’s Invisible Cities created in collaboration with Christodoulos Makris and Fallow Media. 

Her versioning of Dante’s Commedia has been supported by the Devers Program in Dante Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Extracts have appeared or are forthcoming in Firmament, Poetry Ireland Review, and Notre Dame Review. She is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds.

She is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. Kimberly is represented by Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary.

author photo Olivia Brabbs

PUBLICATION NEWS

Canto I Inferno with accompanying essay ‘Three Beginnings: Versioning Dante’s Commedia’, Poetry Ireland Review, winter 2024

(S)worn State(s) released by The Salvage Press (Dublin), December 2024

‘Circling Dante’ in Firmament, the online magazine published by Sublunary Editions

‘Proximities’ in The Pig’s Back

European Association of Irish Studies podcast in conversation about MOTHERBAYHOME with Adam Hanna

articles on MOTHERBABYHOME and (S)worn State(s) in Études irlandaises and in Nordic Journal of Irish Studies

‘Essential Material’ from Tolka magazine issue 5 now online