Kimberly Quiogue Andrews is a poet and literary critic. She is the author of A Brief History of Fruit, winner of the Akron Prize for Poetry from the University of Akron Press, and BETWEEN, winner of the New Women's Voices Chapbook Prize from Finishing Line Press. She lives in Maryland and teaches at Washington College.

Books by Kimberly Quiogue Andrews:

Other poems on the web by Kimberly Quiogue Andrews:
Two poems
Two poems
"No one needs another poem about the Second World War"
"She Said Between"
Two poems
"But don't you think we already have enough meteorology, she said"
Two poems

Kimberly Quiogue Andrews on Twitter.

About A Brief History of Fruit:

"This superb collection offers up history—personal, familial, postcolonial, geopolitical, ecological—and indeed the history of fruit, fruit as sustenance, pleasure, exploitable product, as image, parent, love, and wound. There is no eating fruit without decimating its wholeness, and it is this split, especially in regard to the speaker's bifurcated racial and cultural identity, that generates the book's intricate architecture and vitality. These are hard-won poems, fought for, lived through."
—Diane Seuss

"As devotional hymn and origin myth, A Brief History of Fruit braves our "language // of fracture" to illuminate the blossoms and bruises of family, the sweetbitterness of memory and identity. This phenomenal first book grows from a revolutionary, revelatory imagination—and Kimberly Quiogue Andrews dreams and grieves with 'polycrystalline' vision: her poetry invites us to draw truth from the exacting beauty of those we love, and challenges us to face the sins and illusions of the monsters we inherit. Solmaz Sharif once remarked that "I don't look to poems to heal, but to make the wound alive again and again and again"; to experience Andrews' searching work is to bear witness to that commitment, that ferocious hope, that awe."
—R. A. Villanueva