Kimberly Reyes holds a Master of Arts with a concentration in Arts & Culture from Columbia University‘s Graduate School of Journalism, and most recently completed a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing with a concentration in Poetry from San Francisco State University. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism at Lehigh University. She is the author of three books: Warning Coloration (dancing girl press 2018), Life During Wartime (Fourteen Hills, 2018), and Running to Stand Still (Omnidawn, 2019). She is thrilled to continue her investigations of race, class and society at University College Cork, where she will complete a Master of Arts in Irish Writing and Film, focusing on Performative Postcolonial Identity.