Kimberly Faxon
Lecturer
Kimi Faxon Hemingway is a senior lecturer of creative writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she also coordinates the department’s Bachelor of Fine Arts program. Named UNCW’s 2024 Lecturer of the Year, Hemingway is an 1898 Legacies and Futures Research Collective Fellow and a founding editor of the award-winning literary journal, Ecotone. Her writing has been anthologized in Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, & Abortion, and Witness, and has appeared in magazines such as Ms. and the North Carolina Literary Review. Hemingway is the co-editor of the anthology, Facing Community Change in Navassa.
Education
M.F.A., in Creative Writing, University of North Carolina Wilmington
B.A., in English Literature and Writing, St. Lawrence University
Specialization in Teaching
Memoir
personal essay
nature writing
lyric essay
literary journalism
community engagement
Honors & Awards
SELECTED AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
Lecturer of the Year, University of North Carolina Wilmington (2024)
Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society Award for Teaching Excellence (2014)
Graduate Teaching Award (2005)
Philip Gerard Scholarship (2002-2005)
Robert H. Byington Leadership Fellowship (2004)
Outstanding Teacher in the Humanities, Park City Education Foundation (1999)
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Seahawks Advancing Interdisciplinary Learning (SAIL) Large Group Grant, “Crossroads of Understanding: Enhancing Intersectional Perspectives Through Place-Based Interdisciplinary Studies,” University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2024-2027.
1898 Futures and Legacies Research Collective Faculty Fellow, UNCW 2022-2024.
Community Engaged Learning Fellow, Applied Learning and High Impact Pathways, UNCW, 2022-2024.
Community Engagement Grant, Partnership with the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society and the Historic Latimer House, Office of Community Engagement and Impact, UNCW, 2022-2023.
1898 Legacies and Futures Curriculum Development Fellow, UNCW, Summer 2021, Summer 2023.