Born into a military family, Kirkpatrick grew up in the Philippines, Texas, Germany, and the Carolinas. She received her B.A. in English from See more

Poetry
• The Body's Horizon, Signal Books, 1996, ISBN 978-0930095031
• Beyond Reason, Pecan Grove Press, 2004, ISBN 978-1931247092
• Out of the Garden, Mayapple Press, 2007, See more

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Her works include seven poetry collections: The Body's Horizon (1996), Beyond Reason (2004), Out of the Garden (2007), … See more

She was awarded the N.C. Poetry Society's Brockman-Campbell Award for her poetry collections, The Body's Horizon (1997), Our Held Animal Breath (2013), and Her Small Hands Were Not Beautiful (2015). The North Carolina Literary and Historical … See more