Kimberly Sheridan Owen (she/her) is an artist and nonfiction writer.

ART BIO: Kimberly holds a bachelor’s in illustration from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Throughout her time in New York, she worked with a team to paint hardwood floors to look like inlaid stained wood and ivory, created handbag illustrations and managed production, spent time as a technician in Jeff Koons’ sculpture department, restored a Keith Haring mural, made illustrations for the award-winning documentary Slingshot Hip Hop, and managed the front desk of a tattoo shop.

WRITING BIO: Kimberly earned a master’s in creative nonfiction writing from Eastern Washington University in 2020. She often writes about art in her personal essays, which she does in her Substack newsletter, Double Game. She also writes about broken bones, international pandemic love, big transitions, financial hardship, severe burnout, radical spirituality + rebellion, and tattoo culture.

Her work appears in Entropy, The Big Smoke, Monologging, The Midst, River Styx, and in the University of Hell’s essay collection, 2020* The Year of the Asterisk. She wrote a column Tattoo Ink for The Big Smoke USA and has interviewed authors for Abandon Journal. During her time at EWU, she served as the managing editor of Willow Springs, an award-winning literary journal, and taught Intro to Literature. Kimberly was a panelist for an event about pandemic writing at Spokane’s 2022 Get Lit! festival.

MORE ABOUT KIMBERLY: Born a Jersey girl, and after many years in New York City, Los Angeles, and Spokane, in the USA, Kimberly relocated to Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand in 2022. She’s also a Fascial Stretch Therapist and owns Sheridan Stretch Therapy in Miramar.

You’ll most likely find her binging design shows, painting or gluing or stitching something, neck-deep in research, writing, reading, stretching, talking to her cat, or making another mocha.