I’m an enthusiastic teacher and poet. I also enjoy lizard watching, baking lemon bars, painting, eating the whole thing including the skin of kiwis, rainy days, the absolute power of sunshine, laughing, making new friends, swimming in any body of water, my parents and dumb brothers, coping, reading fiction, trying out new cities, and driving around, to name a few.
2016 Left the wonderful and wild Eastern Shore of Maryland
2020 Graduated from Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland with a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and Secondary Education
2021 Fulbright Teaching Assistant in Madrid, Spain
2021-2025 High school English teacher in MD
2025 Moved to Tampa to begin MFA in Poetry at the University of South Florida
KJB Poetry + Art 