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Kim Rosenfield

Kim Rosenfield, a white woman with straight, shoulder-length steel gray hair, is onstage at a dark club, under purple stage lights, standing at a podium with a microphone. She has on a high-necked black lace blouse, two gold necklaces, and black wool trousers. She is looking to the right and is laughing.

Kim Rosenfield is a poet originally from Southern California. Her first book, Some of Us, was published in 1982 by Ouija Madness Press, Los Angeles. She is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently, Phantom Captain, which won the 2023 FENCE Ottoline Prize. She is also a psychotherapist in private practice and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.