Kim Bridgford

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Kim Bridgford
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Born(1959-08-08)August 8, 1959
Coal Valley, Illinois, U.S.
DiedJune 28, 2020(2020-06-28) (aged 60)
Bettendorf, Iowa, U.S.
Occupation
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Iowa (B.A. and M.F.A.)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Ph.D.)
Literary movementNew Formalism
Notable awardsConnecticut Professor of the Year (1994)
Donald Justice Poetry Prize (2007)
SpousePeter Duval
Children1

Kim Bridgford (August 9, 1959 – June 28, 2020) was an American poet, writer, critic, and academic.

In her poetry, she wrote mainly in traditional forms, particularly sonnets.[1] She was the director of Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference, created in 2014 and first held in May 2015.[2] She directed the West Chester University Poetry Conference from 2010 through 2014. She was born in Coal Valley, Illinois. Bridgford started teaching at Fairfield University in Connecticut in 1989.[3]

Bridgford died from cancer on June 28, 2020, at the age of 60, at a hospice care center in Bettendorf, Iowa.[4]

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