Hilary King is a poet and playwright living in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Her poetry has appeared in Salamander, Ploughshares (forthcoming), DMQ Review, Fourth River, and other fine publications. She is the author of the book, The Maid’s Car (2015), from Kelsay Press.

Selected poems:

Winner, 2023 Virginia de Araujo Prize for “Trees on Fire: Poem for the 1991 Tunnel Hill Fire”

“Icarus Had a Sister” in A Minor

A summer poem in One Art

“Let me live without lessons” is a line I borrowed to begin this poem

“Pipeline” in Ms.

“Therapy of Red Vines” in Rogue Agent

“Later” in Feral

“Trying On” in Gyroscope

“Two Million Sit-Ups Later” in Maudlin House