Kimberly Jane Simms lives in Greenville, South Carolina, and works as the director of Wits End Poetry, a non-profit charity. Their mission is to advocate and promote the art of poetry. She has appeared on stage with renowned poets and performers such as Marc Smith, the Libertines, Ron Rash, Roddy Lumsden, and Jeff McDaniel. Her poetry has been published in a variety of forms across different anthologies, journals, and even online publications. She has been published in periodicals such as the Asheville Poetry Review, Eclipse, and Plains Song Review. Her poetry has appeared the anthologies Quintet, Growing Up Girl, In The Yard, Kakalak 2006, From the Page to the Stage, and Millennial Sampler of SC Poetry.