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
On Phillips Creek
ON PHILLIPS CREEK celebrates the strength of women rooted to a place in Wise County, Virgina. Although the home place is gone, the stories, lives, and memories flow like a river…
And the Weather Remains the Same
East Tennessee Poet Natalie Kimbell takes readers through the emotions of loss, whether that loss be death, relationships, youth, or innocence and soothes that ache with hope.Several poems in this…