Kimberly Garrett

Kimberly Garrett has worked for over 24 years at the University of San Francisco. She has worked as a Program Assistant in the Department of English, the Honors Program in the Humanities, the Peace Review Journal, the MFA in Writing Program, and the Comparative Literature and Culture. From 2021-2024 she served as a Program Assistant Lead, ably managing 2 diverse teams of fellow PAs and creating a professional development training and retreat calendar. She is an USF alumna, having graduated with a double major in Politics and History, but her first love has always been literature. A lifelong student of James Baldwin, John Edgar Wideman, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, and women’s studies, she has a special critical interest in gender, racial, social, and environmental approaches to literature. She has read her poetry at several charity literary events for social justice. She writes mainly poetry and nonfiction, with an occasional dabble in fiction. 

Her interests include: collecting dolls, people, dogs, writing, reading and thinking about Jane Austen, cooking, and history. She co-founded Writers of Discontent, a volunteer author reading that fundraises for causes on censorship, homelessness, racism, gun violence, and the environment. In between SF Giants and Green Bay Packers games and attending the theater, she is working on a passion project continuing the story of Elizabeth Bennet with a twist.

Some of her favorite poets are Lucille Clifton, Nikki Giovanni, e.e. cummings, Dorthy Parker, Danez Smith, Maya Angelou, and Ocean Vuong, but you may also find her reading the latest Stephen King or Kevin Kwan novel.

• Administrative support
• Event planning
• Creative & administrative technology

• Inaugural Member, College of Arts and Sciences Program Assistant Council
• Member, USF Wellness Committee
• Member, USF President’s Steering Committee to form Staff Council
• Member, USF Strategic Plan Working Group on Equitable and Extraordinary Place to Work
• Member, CAS Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Staff Committee

• University of San Francisco, BA in Politics and History, 2000

• Program Assistant Lead, University of San Francisco
• Program Assistant IV, Honors Program in the Humanities & Global Humanities
• Program Assistant IV, Peace Review Journal

• USF Fr. Dunne Award recipient, 2024
• USF Fr. Dunne Award nominee, 2023
• College of Arts and Sciences Collective Achievement Award, 2022
• USF Individual Merit Recipient, 2018
• African American Studies Recognition of Service Award recipient, 2017