Kim Bridgford
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| Born | 1959 |
| Occupation | professor, editor, poet, fiction writer, critic |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
University of Iowa (B.A. and M.F.A.) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Ph.D.) |
| Literary movement | New Formalism |
| Notable awards |
Donald Justice Poetry Prize, 2007. Connecticut Professor of the Year, 1994. |
| Spouse | Peter Duval |
| Children | Nick Duval |
Donald Justice Poetry Prize, 2007.
Kim Bridgford is an award-winning poet, editor, college professor, fiction writer, and critic. In her poetry, she writes primarily in traditional forms, of which the sonnet is her form of choice. She is the director of Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference, established in 2014 and first held in May 2015. She directed the West Chester University Poetry Conference from 2010 through 2014.
As editor-in-chief at Mezzo Cammin, a journal of poetry by women, she founded The Mezzo Cammin Women Poets Timeline Project, which is designed to become the world's largest database of women poets. She was formerly the editor of Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose.
Kim Bridgford was born in 1959. She grew up in Coal Valley, Illinois.
She received both her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees from the University of Iowa; the latter degree was earned from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Bridgford earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois.
Bridgford started teaching at Fairfield University in Connecticut in 1989. In 1994, she moved to Wallingford, Connecticut with her husband Peter Duval, an award-winning author of fiction. In 1996, their son, Nick, was born.
In August 2010, she and her family moved to Pennsylvania where Bridgford joined the West Chester University faculty and served as director of the West Chester University Poetry Center.
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