Abigail Kirby Conklin is a native Brooklynite with a Virginian driver's license, a degree from Michigan State University, and a bedroom in Manhattan.
Kirby Conklin is an alumnus of the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities and the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program at MSU, where she studied radical pedagogy and community arts development. She began writing at the age of six, when she couldn't read (it took well into second grade to nail that down). But what she COULD do was write, memorize, and recite poems (to the confusion of everyone, including her parents).
Kirby Conklin has been involved with youth development and public education for almost ten years. Currently, she works in college access and career development in the New York City public school system, in addition to her writing and performing.
Kirby Conklin is an alumnus of the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities and the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program at MSU, where she studied radical pedagogy and community arts development. She began writing at the age of six, when she couldn't read (it took well into second grade to nail that down). But what she COULD do was write, memorize, and recite poems (to the confusion of everyone, including her parents).
Kirby Conklin has been involved with youth development and public education for almost ten years. Currently, she works in college access and career development in the New York City public school system, in addition to her writing and performing.
Photo: Cory Nakasue, 2016
