Kim Roberts

Discipline: Poetry

Based In: Washington, DC

Year at Millay: 1998

Awards/Honors: Poet-in-Residence, Dumbarton Oaks Conservancy, Washington, DC (2024–2026); Grant Recipient, Poetry, Individual Artist Grant, DC Commission on the Arts, Washington, DC (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 1999, 1992); Fellow, Individual Practitioner Fellowship, HumanitiesDC, Washington, DC (2023); Pride Poets-in-Resident, Arts Club of Washington, Washington, DC (2023); Grant Recipient, Project Grant, DC Commission on the Arts, Washington, DC (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1992); Grant Recipient, CARES Grant, DC Commission on the Arts, Washington, DC (2020); Artist-in-Residence, Art OMI, Ghent, NY (2019, 2018); Fellow, Rose Library Research Fellowship, Emory University, Atlanta, GA (2019); Grant Recipient, Project Grant, HumanitiesDC, Washington, DC (2018, 2012, 2010, 2007, 2004); Artist-in-Residence, Luna Parc Atelier Foundation, Sandyston, NJ (2017); Fellow, Artist Retreat, Unexpected Stage Company, Gaithersburg, MD (2017); Artist-in-Residence, Artist at Pine Needles Residency Program, Science Museum of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN (2016); Fellow, Soul Mountain Retreat, Old Lyme, CT (2012); Fellow, Albee Fellowship, The Edward F. Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY (2011); Artist-in-Residence, Poetry, Hambidge Creative Residency Program, The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA (2009); Award Winner, Independent Voice Award, Capital Book Fest, Washington, DC (2008); Artist-in-Residence, KHN Residency, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE (2006); Award Winner, Willow Run Poetry Book Award, Hidden River Arts, Philadelphia, PA (2003); Artist-in-Residence, I-Park Residency, East Haddam, CT (2002); Artist-in-Residence, New York Mills Regional Cultural Center, New York Mills, MN (2000); Artist-in-Residence, The Mesa Refuge, Point Reyes Station, CA (1998); Artist-In-Residence, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY (1993, 1990); Artist-in-Residence, Residency Program, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL (1993); Artist-in-Residence, VCCA Residency, Amherst, VA (1993, 1991, 1987); Artist-in-Residence, Writing, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY (1991); Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities: Summer Seminar at Yale University, New Haven, CT (1989); Artist-in-Residence, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, Taos, NM (1987); Participant, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT (1986).

Website: https://www.kimroberts.org/

Kim Roberts is the author of seven books of poems, most recently Q&A for the End of the World, a collaboration with poet Michael Gushue (WordTech Editions, 2025). Roberts edited By Broad Potomac’s Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of our Nation’s Capital (University of Virginia Press, 2020), selected by the East Coast Centers for the Book to represent Washington, DC in the Route 1 Reads program. She is the author of the popular guidebook, A Literary Guide to Washington, DC: Walking in the Footsteps of American Writers from Francis Scott Key to Zora Neale Hurston (University of Virginia Press, 2018), and the forthcoming Buried Stories: Walking Tours of Washington, DC-Area Cemeteries (Rivanna Books, Fall 2025). Roberts co-curates DC Pride Poem-a-Day each June with filmmaker Jon Gann. She has been the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities DC, and the DC Commission on the Arts, and has been a Writer-in-Residence at 20 artist residencies and nonprofits.