bridget kriner
about
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about
Bridget Kriner is a community college professor in Cleveland Ohio where she teaches English and Women's & Gender Studies. Her work has appeared in Rattle (Poets Respond), Variant Literary, Shelia-Na-Gig, Thimble Literary Magazine and Split this Rock, where she won First Place in the Abortion Rights Poetry Contest in 2012. She participated in the Sewanee Writers' Conference as a Poetry Contributor in 2023 and will attend The Kenyon Review Residency in summer 2024. When she is not teaching, mothering her two daughters or writing poetry, she enjoys hate-watching romance reality television shows, daydreaming, and spending time with her community of family & friends She has worked as a barista, bartender, abortion clinic patient advocate, union organizer, and fair housing tester.work
- "For the Record" & "Where Taylor Rd Dead Ends at Fairmount Blvd," in The Marbled Sigh Summer 2024 (forthcoming)
- "Nix v. Hedden," in New Delta Review, Sprint 2024 (forthcoming)
- "In 1986," in Variant Literature, Issue Seventeen (Winter 2024)
- "A Few Lies & a Truth," "On Being Home Alone & WAtching Serial Killer Documentaries on Netflix," & "Birds Aren't Real" in Sixfold Poetry, Winter 2023
- "Alice In Training©," "When I Watch True Crime Documentaries on Netflix," "No Joke," "Chekhov says it's wrong to make promises," in The Opiate, Winter Vol. 36
- "Power Thoughts" in Thimble Literary Magazine Vol. 6 No. 3 Winter 2023
- "On Aesthetic Injury" in Rattle Poets Respond® August 2023
- "Petrichor" in Book of Matches: A Literary Journal Fall 2023 Issue 9
- "Shatner & Hadfield on the Motherhood" in Sheila-Na-Gig Inc. Volume 8.1: Fall 2023
miscellany
recognition
- Palette Poetry Chapbook Prize, Long List
- 2023 Minds on Fire Open book Prize, Conduit book & Ephemera, Semi-Finalist
- 2023 Chapbook Contest, Finalist
- 2023 Quarter After Eight, Finalist
- 2012 Abortion Rights Poetry Contest, Split This Rock, First Place
experience
- The Kenyon Review Summer Residential Writers Workshop, 2024
- 2024 Collaborating Fellow, The Poetry Lab
- Sewanee Writers Conference, Poetry Contributor, 2023
- Breadloaf Writers Conference, Poetry Participant, 1998
other writing
- "Making it Work: Five Jobs for Poem Titles," The Poetry Lab Resource Center
- "That's So Meta: 8 Ars Poetica Poems," The Poetry Lab Resource Center