Kierstin Bridger

Kierstin Bridger is a Colorado writer. She is author of two books: All Ember (Urban Farmhouse Press) and Demimonde (Lithic Press). Demimonde won the Women Writing The West’s 2017 WILLA Award  for poetry. She is a winner of the Mark Fischer Poetry Prize, the 2015 ACC Writer’s Studio award, a silver Charter Oak Best Historical Award, and an Anne LaBastille Poetry Residency. Bridger was also short-listed for the Manchester Poetry Competition in the UK. She is editor of Ridgway Alley Poems, Co-Director of Open Bard Poetry Series, CO-creator of the Podcast, Poetry Voice with Kierstin Bridger and Uche Ogbuji and director of the 2018 literary Burlesque at The Telluride Literary Festival. She earned her MFA at Pacific University. kierstinbridger.com