Gene Kimmet is a retired professor of economics from Harper College in Palatine, Illinois.

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He was born in Lima, Ohio, a town with a long history of heavy industrial production. Kimmet worked at a variety of jobs there, including lens grinder, foundry worker, service station operator, and salesman, before receiving a BA in economics from Ohio Northern University. He later earned an MA in economics from Case Western Reserve University and a post-master’s degree in economics from Northern Illinois University.

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Kimmet has also done extensive graduate work in English and creative writing at Northern Illinois University and the University of Virginia. 

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Previous collections include Skipping Stone (Dream Stone Press, 2000) and In Fee Simple (Stormline Press, 1986.)