The literary bio
Kim Addonizio is the author of three books
of poetry from BOA Editions: The Philosopher's
Club, Jimmy & Rita, and Tell Me,
which was a finalist for the 2000 National Book Award.
Her latest collection, What Is This Thing Called
Love, was published by W.W. Norton in January 2004. A
book of stories, In the Box Called Pleasure, was
published by Fiction Collective 2. She is also co-author,
with Dorianne Laux, of The Poet's Companion: A Guide
to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (W.W. Norton).
With Cheryl Dumesnil she co-edited Dorothy Parker's
Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos (Warner
Books).
Her first novel, Little Beauties, was
published by Simon & Schuster in August
2005 and came out in paperback inJuly 06. Her new novel, My Dreams Out in the Street, has just been published by Simon & Schuster (July 07).
She also has a word/music CD with poet Susan Browne, "Swearing, Smoking, Drinking, & Kissing," available from cdbaby.
Her awards include two fellowships from the
National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim
Fellowship,a Pushcart Prize, a Commonwealth Club Poetry
Medal, and the John Ciardi Lifetime Achievement
Award.
Her poetry and fiction have appeared widely
in anthologies and literary journals including Alaska
Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review,
Chick-Lit, Dick for a Day, Gettysburg
Review, Paris Review, Penthouse, Poetry, and
Threepenny Review. She teaches private
workshops in Oakland, CA.
The other bio
Previous occupations: waitress, fry cook,
tennis instructor, Kelly Girl (deadening temporary office
work), attendant for the disabled, auto parts store
bookkeeper.
My mother was a tennis champion.
See her bio and some great pictures of her here.
My
dad was a sportswriter for the Washington Post. I
have four brothers. My daughter, Aya
Cash, received her BFA from the University of
Minnesota/Guthrie Theater Acting Training Program and is now living in in New York. You can currently catch her in a cable TV commercial, jumping into a bottle of SoBe Life Water.
SIGN Leo
FAVORITE COLOR Teal
blue
FAVORITE POETS John
Keats Walt Whitman Elizabeth Bishop all the ancient
Chinese & Japanese Jack Gilbert C.K.Williams Ovid
Antonio Machado Emily Dickinson William Blake Dean Young
FAVORITE
SINGER/SONGWRITERS Adam Duritz Patty Griffin
Sarah McLachlan Ani Di Franco Tom Waits Steve Earle
PREVIOUS INCARNATION
Edna St. Vincent Millay
WHO I WOULD HAVE BEEN
IN AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE Old black man sitting on
the porch playing blues harmonica all day long
HOW I SPEND MY TIME WHEN I'M NOT WRITING Weightlifting, tennis, ice skating, yoga, teaching, reading, listening to blues, playing my Mississippi Saxophone, drinking wine, spending too much money on eating out, watching TV & DVDs, feeling fucked up, feeling happy, feeling important, feeling stupid and inconsequential, obsessing over Iraq & other corporate imperialist misadventures
