Kimberly Ann Southwick is the founder and editor in chief of the biannual print literary arts journal Gigantic Sequins. She has two poetry chapbooks, every song by Patsy Cline (dancing girl press, February 2014) and efs & vees (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2015). She is an Assistant Professor of Poetry and Literature at Jacksonville State University in Alabama, and her debut poetry collection, ORCHID ALPHA, came out in 2023.