Kim Addonizio

Kim Addonizio
Addonizio at Sierra Poetry Festival 2025
Born	(1954-07-31) July 31, 1954 (age 71) Washington, D.C., U.S
Citizenship	American
Education	Georgetown University San Francisco State University (BA, MA)
Occupation(s)	Poet, novelist
Children	Aya Cash
Parents	Bob Addie (father) Pauline Betz (mother)
Notes
[1]

Kim Addonizio (born July 31, 1954) is an American poet and novelist. ^[2]

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. ^[3] 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. ^[4]

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

Awards

• Two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships ^[5]
• 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship ^[6]
• 2004 Mississippi Review Fiction Prize ^[7]
• 2000 National Book Award Finalist for Tell Me ^[8]
• 2000 Pushcart Prize for "Aliens"
• 1994 San Francisco Commonwealth Club Poetry Medal

Works

Addonizio in 2014

Poetry

• The Philosopher's Club. BOA Editions. 1994. ISBN   978-1-880238-02-8.
• Jimmy & Rita. BOA Editions. 1997. ISBN   978-1-880238-41-7.
• "What Do Women Want", poets.org
• Tell Me. BOA Editions. 2000. ISBN   978-1-880238-91-2.
• "Scary Movies", Poetry, March 2000
• "Eating Together", Poetry, June 2003
• What is this Thing Called Love. W. W. Norton & Company. 2003. ISBN   978-0-393-05726-3.
• "Lucifer at the Starlite", Three Penny Review, Summer 2007 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
• Lucifer at the Starlite. W. W. Norton & Company. 2009. ISBN   978-0-393-06852-8.
• "The First Line is the Deepest", Poetry, January 2009
• "Weaponry", Poetry, February 2009
• My Black Angel. Stephen F. Austin State University Press. 2014. ISBN   978-1-62288-037-9.
• Wild Nights, New & Selected Poems. Bloodaxe. 2015. ISBN   978-1780372709.
• Now We're Getting Somewhere (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022)

Fiction

• In the box called pleasure: stories. FC2. 1999. ISBN   978-1-57366-081-5.
• Little Beauties . Simon & Schuster. 2005. ISBN   978-0-7432-7456-2. Kim Addonizio.
• My Dreams Out in the Street . Simon & Schuster. 2007. ISBN   978-0-7432-9772-1. Kim Addonizio.
• The Palace of Illusions. Soft Skull. 2014. ISBN   978-1-59376-542-2. Kim Addonizio.

Non-fiction

• Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within. W.W. Norton. 2009.
• ——; 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, eds. (2002). Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos. Diane Publishing Co. ISBN   978-0-7567-9159-9.
• ——; Jeb Livingood, eds. (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, eds. (2003). "Cranes in August". Poets against the War. Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN   978-1-56025-539-0.
• Billy Collins; David Lehman, eds. (2006). The best American poetry, 2006. Scribner Poetry. ISBN   978-0-7432-5759-6.
• ——; Laurie Duesing; Dorianne Laux (1987). Three West Coast Women. Five Fingers Poetry.

References

1. "Pauline Betz Addie, 1940s tennis champion, dies at 91". Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
2. "Kim Addonizio". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved August 14, 2015.
3. Addonizio, Kim (2009). Ordinary genius : a guide for the poet within (1st ed.). New York: W.W. Norton. pp.  55–56. ISBN   978-0-393-33416-6.
4. "Kim Addonizio - Poet | Academy of American Poets". Poets.org. 1954-07-31. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
5. https://www.arts.gov/grants/recent-grants/literature-fellowships?field_year_value=All&field_lit_fellows_type_value=3&title=Kim+Addonizio
6. https://www.gf.org/fellows?q=Kim%20Addonizio
7. https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/kim_addonizio
8. https://www.nationalbook.org/books/tell-me/

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