Brandon Kilbourne

Originally from Lafayette, Louisiana, Brandon Kilbourne is a biologist currently residing in Berlin, Germany. Key to his research is fieldwork in foreign countries pursuing roadkill and rummaging through museum freezers to study mammal anatomy, locomotion, and evolution (current focus the weasel family). The beginnings of his poems occur not only among the bones and muscles he studies but also among the people encountered and human connections made during his travels. On top of this, Kilbourne uses fieldwork as a motivation to learn about poets and poetry from the countries that he visits, and he also participates in poetry workshops in Berlin. Since 2018, Kilbourne has had poetry appear in Sky Island Journal, Third Street Writers’ Beach Reads, Catamaran Literary Reader, and Naugatuck River Review.