Kim Fulton is a poet and fiction writer from Auckland, New Zealand. Her writing has appeared literary journals in New Zealand and overseas including Landfall, Mimicry, Poetry New Zealand, Scattered Feathers, The Unnecessary Invention of Punctuation, Hue and Cry, JAAM, takahe, The Pangolin Review, Nga Kupu Waikato: An anthology of Waikato poetry, and Stasis Journal. She has a Master's degree in Creative Writing from Massey University. Her thesis looked at how contemporary elegiac poets use indirect approaches to loss, such as humour and irony, to avoid sentimentality. She explores these approaches in her own work.