“Translations From Here”

Kim Shuck is a silly protein, or more accurately a series of increasingly silly proteins. Shuck has done a number of things professionally: coffee monkey, professor/student wrangler, modern dance teacher, visual artist, poet tamer, poet, writer of math curricula, parent, event organizer among others. Shuck is solo author of 10 books and editor or edit curious of another 10. Currently Kim makes what laughingly passes for a living writing and talking about writing. Degrees, awards, reviews, death threats and all of the usual social lint that attaches itself to opinionated creatives pertain. Shuck is the 7th Poet Laureate Emerita of San Francisco.