Kim Shuck
Poet Laureate of San Francisco, 2017–2021
Kim Shuck was born in San Francisco and is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She received a BA in art and an MFA in textiles from San Francisco State University.
Shuck is the author of the poetry collections Deer Trails (City Lights Books, 2019); Clouds Running In (Taurean Horn Press, 2014); Rabbit Stories (Poetic Matrix Press, 2013); and Smuggling Cherokee (Greenfield Review Press, 2005).
In 2019, Shuck was named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. She currently works at the California College of Art in the diversity department. She served as the seventh poet laureate of San Francisco from 2017 to 2021.