Kimberly has a background in cultural anthropology and researches the extractive afterlives of closed mines and their surrounding basins. Her PhD focused on the aftermath of Japan's first major industrial pollution disaster, the Ashio Copper Mine Pollution Incident. Born in Hong Kong and now based in Tokyo, she works across English, Chinese (Cantonese & Mandarin), and Japanese. Drawing on her doctoral research, her nonfiction piece “What Cannot Be Unearthed” received an honorable mention in the 2025 Tell the Untold! Environmental Writing Competition hosted by the Rachel Carson Center. Alongside her writing, she has participated in exhibitions and collaborated on cultural and art projects as a translator, interpreter, facilitator, and organizer. When not writing or out in the field, she might be carving her next woodcut block print.