Kim Addonizio

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 fellowships
2005 Guggenheim Fellowship
2004 Mississippi Review Fiction Prize
2000 National Book Award Finalist for Tell Me
2000 Pushcart Prize for "Aliens"
1994 San Francisco Commonwealth Club Poetry Medal

Works

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.
Tell Me. BOA Editions. 2000. ISBN 978-1-880238-91-2.
. W. W. Norton & Company. 2003. ISBN 978-0-393-05726-3.
2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
. W. W. Norton & Company. 2009. ISBN 978-0-393-06852-8.
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

. FC2. 1999. ISBN 978-1-57366-081-5.
. Simon & Schuster. 2005. ISBN 978-0-7432-7456-2. Kim Addonizio.
. 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.
Bukowski in a Sundress. Penguin Books. 2016.
——; Dorianne Laux (1997). . 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). . 180 more: extraordinary poems for every day. Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-8129-7296-2.
Sam Hamill; Sally Anderson, eds. (2003). . Poets against the War. Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 978-1-56025-539-0.
Billy Collins; David Lehman, eds. (2006). . Scribner Poetry. ISBN 978-0-7432-5759-6.
——; Laurie Duesing; Dorianne Laux (1987). Three West Coast Women. Five Fingers Poetry.