Kim Keough

Kim Keough has been a staff member of Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School for 16 years. In addition to assisting in the Special Ed. Department, Kim is the advisor for Smith’s Gender & Sexuality Alliance, JABOP (Just A Bunch Of People), she founded and facilitated a creative writing club (AM Writing), an early morning creative writing workshop for students and staff, from 2014-2024. Kim has also coordinated Smith’s National Poetry Month Celebration in April, since 2015.  Teaming up with Smith’s art instructor Tracey Burke in 2019, Kim co-founded and named the high school’s first literary magazine The Viking Runestone. Originally from Philadelphia, she lived in New York City for many years before landing here in the Happy Valley to complete her bachelor’s degree in English, at Mount Holyoke College. Kim is the former director of Voices from Inside, a creative writing program for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women. 

Prior to her work in the non-profit sector and public education, Kim worked in theatre and traveled the world—Japan, Western Europe and the United States. She lives in Williamsburg.