Kim Shuck's first professional poetry publication was in the En'Owken Journal and her most recent was in Avatar Review. She is the author of CLOUDS RUNNING IN (Taurean Horn Press, 2014), RABBIT STORIES (Poetic Matrix Press, 2013), and SMUGGLING CHEROKEE (The Greenfield Review Press, 2006), winner of the Diane Decorah award from the Native Writer's Circle of the Americas in 2005. She has also won a mentor of the year award from Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, a Mary Tall Mountain award and various other awards and publications in journals, periodicals and anthologies. Kim volunteers with second graders every week disguising math as art and art as math, she has been part of the San Francisco poetry scene for the last twenty mumble years and her beadwork can be seen every weekend during pow wow season from North Carolina to Fresno. She edits the infrequent Rabbit and Rose online literary journal, lives in San Francisco with one of her two sons, a housecoat, a small feline she thought was a housecoat when she adopted it and a grumpy and mouthy parrot named Bond.
