Kim Addonizio (July 31, 1954) is an American

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and novelist.

Life

Addonizio was born in

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, United States. She is the daughter of tennis champion

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and sports writer

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(born Addonizio). She briefly attended

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and

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before dropping out of both. She later moved to

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and received a

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and

M.A. A Master of Arts ( la, Magister Artium or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA, M.A., AM, or A.M.) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Tho ...

from

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. She has taught at

and

Goddard College Goddard College is a progressive education private liberal arts low-residency college with three locations in the United States: Plainfield, Vermont; Port Townsend, Washington; and Seattle, Washington. The college offers undergraduate and gra ...

. She has a daughter, actress

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, and currently lives in

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Awards

* two

National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal ...

fellowships * 2005

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

* 2004 Mississippi Review Fiction Prize * 2000

National Book Award The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards. At the final National Book Awards Ceremony every November, the National Book Foundation presents the National Book Awards and two lifetime achievement awards to authors. The Nat ...

Finalist for ''Tell Me'' * 2000

Pushcart Prize The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...

for "Aliens" * 1994 San Francisco Commonwealth Club Poetry Medal

Works

Poetry

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"What Do Women Want", ''poets.org''
* ttp://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=182823 "Weaponry", ''Poetry'', February 2009br>"Lucifer at the Starlite", ''Three Penny Review'', Summer 2007
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Fiction

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Non-fiction

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Anthologies

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References

External links

Addonizio's official web site

Kim Addonizio: Profile and Poems at Poets.org

The Palace of Illusions
a short story at

Narrative Magazine ''Narrative'' is an online magazine and website that is dedicated to advancing the literary arts in the digital age and publishes fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and art. It was founded in 2003. History and profile Founded in 2003, the l ...

.
"Poem for the New Year"

Kim Addonizio on creativity and the creative process, an interview with about-creativity.com July 26, 2007
* Audio
Kim Addonizio performing "Fuck" on the Indiefeed Performance Poetry Podcast
* Audio
Kim Addonizio reads "Muse"
from the book ''What Is This Thing Called Love'' * Audio
Kim Addonizio reads "You Were"
from the book ''Lucifer at the Starlite'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Addonizio, Kim 1954 births American women poets American women novelists Living people Georgetown University alumni San Francisco State University alumni Poets from Maryland 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American poets 20th-century American poets 20th-century American women writers Poets from Washington, D.C. San Francisco State University faculty Goddard College faculty National Endowment for the Arts Fellows Novelists from Maryland Novelists from Vermont American women academics