Kim Robert Stafford (1949- ), is an American poet, writer, and educator born and raised in Portland, Oregon. Stafford earned a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts in English, and Ph.D. in medieval literature from the University of Oregon. Kim Stafford is the son of poet William Stafford (1914-1993), and is the literary executor for William Stafford's estate.

Kim Stafford is the author of more than twelve books of poetry and prose. Stafford’s poetry has been published in national magazines and journals and collected in several volumes stretching over five decades, from A Gypsy’s History of the World (1976) and As The Sky Begins to Change (2024). He has also self-published a series of chapbooks, beginning in 2017 with The Flavor of Unity: Post-Election Poems. Stafford has published three collections of essays, including Having Everything Right: Essays of Place (1986), which won a Western States Book Award. He has written two memoirs, Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford (2003) and 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared (2012); a children's book, We Got Here Together (1994); a collection of short fictions, Wind on the Waves: Stories from the Oregon Coast (1992); and a handbook about writing, The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer’s Craft (2003). He has produced two CDs of his original songs and a radio series for National Public Radio and has edited several books by his father, William Stafford.

Kim Stafford first taught at Lewis & Clark College in 1979, when he was hired to teach the photography portion of a two-week class called the Foxfire Workshop. After seven years as an adjunct, Stafford became the part-time codirector of the Oregon Writing Project in 1984, and the full-time director of the Northwest Writing Institute in 1986. Kim Stafford retired in 2021 and is now Emeritus Professor at Lewis & Clark College.

In addition to the Northwest Writing Institute, Stafford has co-founded the Oregon Folk Arts program, and the Fishtrap Writers’ Gathering in Wallowa County. He has been involved in artists-in-the-schools programs around the state, has served as a member of the Oregon Governor’s Task Force on Arts & Culture, received a Governor’s Arts Award, and been a consultant to the Oregon Arts Commission. Stafford has received two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and one of his dozen published works, Having Everything Right, won a Western States Book Award in 1986. Stafford has taught writing in dozens of schools and community centers, as well as in Scotland, Italy, Mexico, and Bhutan. From 2018-2020 Stafford served as Oregon's 9th Poet Laureate.