About
Kim Fulton is a poet and fiction writer from Auckland, New Zealand. Her first book of poems, I kind of thought the alpacas were a metaphor until we got there, is out now.
Kim’s writing has appeared in Landfall, Mimicry, Poetry New Zealand, Scattered Feathers, The Unnecessary Invention of Punctuation, Hue and Cry, JAAM, takahē, The Pangolin Review, Ngā Kupu Waikato, A Twilight Menagerie, Stasis Journal, Fresh Ink, Blackmail Press and Daisy Cutter.
She has placed second in the NZ Poetry Society International Poetry Competition, been shortlisted for the Takahe Monica Taylor Prize, and was named on the judge’s list in the Geometry | Open Book National Poetry Competition. She was highly commended in the AA New Travel Writer of the Year category at the Cathay Pacific Travel Media Awards.
Kim has a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from Massey University. Her thesis looked at how contemporary elegiac poets use indirect approaches to loss, such as humour and irony, to avoid sentimentality. Her own work explores these ideas.
In her spare time she enjoys playing soccer and cricket, running, reading, and photography. She’s previously worked as a journalist and now works as a content and communications lead in the tertiary education sector.
Photo: Daria Gorbunova.