Kim Goldberg is a poet, journalist and author in Nanaimo, British Columbia. Her award-winning articles on politics, environment and social issues have appeared in numerous magazines in North America and England for more than twenty years. She has written four nonfiction books including Submarine Dead Ahead! and The Barefoot Channel. Her poetry has appeared in Prism International, The Dalhousie Review, Nimrod International Journal, Tesseracts #11, and many other literary journals and anthologies. For the past ten years she has studied the ancient Taoist internal practice of Liuhebafa. In her latest book Ride Backwards on Dragon, she uses the 66-move sequence of this little-known martial art from China to trace her own journey through an alien landscape of inner alchemy in a series of 66 linked poems. The book will be published September 2007 by Leaf Press, www.leafpress.ca. Kim also co-hosts an Urban Poetry Café on Radio CHLY in Nanaimo. In 2006, she organized the Urban Eyes Art Exhibition after a vacant lot in her neighborhood was bulldozed for condominiums, exposing a previously hidden encampment of homeless people. The art exhibition featured the work of 52 local artists and architects addressing the theme of urban development. Kim was born and raised in Oregon, and she holds a degree in Biology from the University of Oregon. She moved to Canada with her family during the years of the Vietnam War.