East Tennessee writer Natalie Kimbell was born in Norton Virginia, lived in Worcester, Massachusetts, and settled as a teenager in Dunlap, Tennessee. After forty-two years as a public school teacher in Sequatchie County, Tennessee, she has retired focusing on her writing. Her work appears in many journals and anthologies including Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel, Mildred Haun Review, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Tennessee Voices, and Artemis. Her first poetry chapbook, On Phillips Creek was published by Finishing Line Press in 2024. Her second chapbook, And the Weather Remains the Same, by Finishing Line Press will be released in June 2025.
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Latest Chapbooks
And the Weather Remains the Same
Grief is a powerful force. In these poems, Kimbell shares personal losses of love, youth, and death.
On Phillips Creek
This collection speaks of loss and it’s resurrective value as well as the enduring nature of family and memory.
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