Kim Addonizio

Kim Addonizio (born Kim Addie, July 31, 1954, Bethesda, Maryland^[1]) is an award-winning American poet and novelist.

Life

Addonizio is the daughter of tennis champion Pauline Betz and sports writer Bob Addie.

She briefly attended Georgetown University and American University before dropping out of both.^[2] She later moved to San Francisco and received a B.A. and M.F.A. from San Francisco State University. She has taught at San Francisco State University and Goddard College.^[3]

She has a daughter, Aya Cash, and currently lives in Oakland, California.

Awards

• two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships
• 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2004 Mississippi Review Fiction Prize
• 2000 National Book Award nomination for Tell Me
• 2000 Pushcart Prize for "Aliens"
• 1994 San Francisco Commonwealth Club Poetry Medal

Works

Poetry

• "What Do Women Want", poets.org
• "Eating Together", Poetry, June 2003
• "Scary Movies", Poetry, March 2000
• "The First Line is the Deepest", Poetry, January 2009
• "Weaponry", Poetry, February 2009
• "Lucifer at the Starlite", Three Penny Review, Summer 2007

• What is this Thing Called Love. W. W. Norton & Company. 2003. ISBN 978-0-393-05726-3. 
• Tell Me. Boa Editions. 2000. ISBN 978-1-880238-91-2. 
• Jimmy & Rita. BOA Editions. 1997. ISBN 978-1-880238-41-7. 
• The Philosopher's Club. Boa Editions. 1994. ISBN 978-1-880238-02-8. 

Fiction

• Little Beauties. Simon and Schuster. 2005. ISBN 978-0-7432-7456-2. 
• My Dreams Out in the Street. Simon and Schuster. 2007. ISBN 978-0-7432-9772-1. 
• In the box called pleasure: stories. FC2. 1999. ISBN 978-1-57366-081-5. 

Non-Fiction

• Ordinary Genius: A True & Beautiful Course in Writing Poetry. W.W. Norton. 2009. 
• Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (1997). The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-31654-4. 
• Kim Addonizio, Cheryl Dumesnil, ed. (2002). Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos. Diane Publishing Co. ISBN 978-0-7567-9159-9. 
• Kim Addonizio, Jeb Livingood, ed. (2009). Best New Poets 2009: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-9766296-4-1. 

Anthologies

• Billy Collins, ed. (2005). "Chicken". 180 more: extraordinary poems for every day. Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-8129-7296-2. 
• Sam Hamill, Sally Anderson, ed. (2003). "Cranes in August". Poets against the War. Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 978-1-56025-539-0. 
• Billy Collins, David Lehman, ed. (2006). The best American poetry, 2006. Scribner Poetry. ISBN 978-0-7432-5759-6. 
• Kim Addonizio, Laurie Duesing, Dorianne Laux (1987). Three West Coast Women. Five Fingers Poetry. 

References

External links

• Kim Addonizio's official web site
• Kim Addonizio's poet page at The Poetry Foundation
• The Palace of Illusions, a short story at Narrative Magazine.
• "Poem for the New Year"
• Kim Addonizio on creativity and the creative process, an interview with about-creativity.com July 26, 2007
• Audio: Kim Addonizio performing "Fuck" on the Indiefeed Performance Poetry Podcast
• Audio: Kim Addonizio reads "Muse" from the book What Is This Thing Called Love
• Audio: Kim Addonizio reads "You Were" from the book Lucifer at the Starlite