Kim Addonizio (born July 31, 1954) is an American poet and novelist.
Life Addonizio was born in Washington, D.C., United States. She is the daughter of tennis champion Pauline Betz and sports writer Bob Addie (born Addonizio).
She briefly attended Georgetown University and American University before dropping out of both. She later moved to San Francisco and received a B.A. and M.A. from San Francisco State University. She has taught at San Francisco State University and Goddard College.
She has a daughter, actress Aya Cash, and currently lives in Oakland, California.
Awards
Two National Endowment for the Arts fellowshipshttps://www.arts.gov/grants/recent-grants/literature-fellowships?field_year_value=All&field_lit_fellows_type_value=3&title=Kim+Addonizio 2005 Guggenheim Fellowshiphttps://www.gf.org/fellows?q=Kim%20Addonizio 2004 Mississippi Review Fiction Prizehttps://www.pw.org/directory/writers/kim_addonizio 2000 National Book Award Finalist for Tell Mehttps://www.nationalbook.org/books/tell-me/ 2000 Pushcart Prize for "Aliens" 1994 San Francisco Commonwealth Club Poetry Medal
Works
Poetry
"What Do Women Want", poets.org
"Scary Movies", Poetry, March 2000 "Eating Together", Poetry, June 2003
"Lucifer at the Starlite", Three Penny Review, Summer 2007
"The First Line is the Deepest", Poetry, January 2009 "Weaponry", Poetry, February 2009
Now We're Getting Somewhere (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022)
Fiction
Non-fiction
Anthologies
References
External links
Addonizio's official web site Kim Addonizio's poet page at The Poetry Foundation Kim Addonizio: Profile and Poems at Poets.org Kim Addonizio on creativity and the creative process, an interview with about-creativity.com July 26, 2007