INTERVIEW with Sundress Blog and Kierstin Bridger reads Lynn Emanuel
Painted Bride Quarterly Issue 99 “Familial Snag” Poem
COLORADO MATTERS INTERVIEW-TIME –last 15 min
Blog interview about Demimonde
2018 Poetry
Colorado Encyclopedia: Kierstin Bridger
3 Poems in summer issue of a Pilgrimage
Legions In the Sun World: War Poems of the Great War— A World War 1 Anthology edited by Colorado Poet Laureate, Joseph Hutchison
“Here We Awoke, A Choir of Quiet Angels Telluride Inside and Out
“For You Mother, a Storm Seed” BorderLands Texas Poetry Review #47
2018 Prose Publications
Traders Flash Fiction at Ilanot Review
Portrait Hall Palimpsest: Storied Houses Lyric Essay at Hobart
“She Drove us To The River of Sorrows” Essay in edible South West Colorado
2017 Poetry Publications:
“Of Arc” Winner of the 9th Fortnight Prize from Eyewear Publishing
Charter Oak Award Best Historical Writing Silver Award for “Red Cross” (Forthcoming)in Footnote by Alternating Current Press with “Doing my Bit”
“Of Arc” in Califragile
“Flight Plan Interrupted” and “Snapchat/Snapshot” in Califragile
Demimonde is the new Women Writing The West’s Willa Award Winner for Poetry!
2017 Manifest West Anthology
Teow Lim Goh’s Interview of Kierstin Bridger in Canopy
Prairie Schooner Summer Issue “What I Didn’t Photograph“
Hoot Review February Issue “Cold War”
POETRY PUBLICATIONS
2016 Microfiction
1000 Words Summer 2016 PLAYA “Applebomb, Another Word for Pomegranate”
2016:
Painted Bride Quarterly Forthcoming in the Locals Edition PODCAST OF SLUSH PILE
Fool For Poetry Highly Commended Chapbook
Mountain Gazette “Elliptical” Summer Issue
Concis “Indictments” May 1 —Anthology Spring 2016
Bared Anthology by Les Femmes Folles Books “The Once Welcome Guest Rises” and “Dinner Party” (reprint) Just out!!
December Magazine Volume 27.1 Finalist For the Jeff Marks Poetry Contest
DEMIMONDE published by Lithic Press February 29, 2016
The Fem “Cast of Cousins” March 3
Hawaii Review 83 “Missing” Winter 2016
Lascaux Prize Anthology “Manifest” Finalist (Reprint)
ONE by Jacar Press “Nature Of Love” Issue 8
Progenitor Art & Literary Journal 1st Place winner in the 2015 ACC Poetry contest: “With Feathers”—Pushcart nominated
Red Paint Hill “Calculation of Distance of Distance” Issue 9
Sunstruck Magazine 2 poems, Volume 2 Issue 1 Feruary “Liminal On United” and “I Can’t Read Tea Leaves or Tarot”
2015
Botticelli Magazine “Dress of Faith”
Contrary Magazine “Gilt” Pushcart Nominated
Fruita Pulp: Poetics Discussion with 3 other poets
The Harlequin: “Cider Portrait” Fall issue 8
If and Only If Journal“You Could Call This Another Father Poem” Winter Issue 2
Intimacy Anthology“Einstein Says” 2015 by Jacar Press:
Pasque Petals Anthology: “A Camera Interrupts,” The Old Country Exhales,” and “Crone”
Telluride Tales, a Journal of the Telluride Historical Museum Volume IV “Inside the Beast” and “Carpe Diem”
Tulane Review: “Carpenter’s House” Spring 2015
3Elements Review: “Horace Meant Pluck Not Seize” Summer Issue 7
2013 -2014
About Place Journal” Volume III Issue 1 “Port of Call San Juan Puerto Rico”
Blast Furnace: “Carpenter’s House” and Step Mother” Spring Volume 5, Issue 1
Broadsided Press “Haiku Year In Review”— 2 poems: Spring and Fall finalist
Cactus Heart #8.5 2014 (and online as example of their taste)“Product of Mexico”
Chicago Literati 2013: “Because Now There Are School Shootings” and “Reading Your Face in Placerville”
Fugue Issue #48 “Arrival”
Something’s Brewing Anthology: 2 poems: “Four Girls March 2014
Sugar Mule: Issue #49 edited by Cameron Scott “Danny”and “Long Distance”
Willow Creek Journal: “End of Summer” Summer 2014
Poetry With A Dash Of Salt Anthology edited by D. Marlar “Notes On Transparency”
The City Fox,UK “Leader of The Pack” #2 “Ashes” Issue
Fruita Pulp: “Manifest” February
Mason’s Road Literary and Arts Journal– “Eggs, Garlic, Yam” Transformations Issue
Pilgrimage Magazine– “Grace” Issue Winter
Stoneboat 4.1 “Weeble Haibun” Fall
Spilt Infinitive(3 poems) & 2013 Best of Spilt Infinitive
Atwood Magazine“Product of Mexico” (early version) April Issue 4 Daydreams Issue
Prime Number April- June 2013 “Loaded” Magazine, Prime Decimals
2012
Turbulence Poetry December 2012“Host of Multitudes Swallow Me Whole” UK
The English Chicago Review December “Nuclear Family Portrait” UK
Memoir Journal, Issue 10 (2 poems) June
Mountain Gazette November, July, and May 2012 issues
Copperfield Review (3 poems)April 2012
Thrush Literary Journal, May “Boundary Breech”
Occupoetry“You Occupy the Field” May
2011-present Telluride Inside and Out– http://www.tellurideinside.com: Poet’s Corner- ongoing
Credits
2015 to write and perform a centennial poem for the historic Sherbino Theatre in Ridgway, CO
2015 Reading with poets Wendy Videlock and Jennifer Hanncock
2014 and 2015 Performance poet at Telluride Literary Festival: Literary Burlesque
2014 Commencement speaker, Pacific University for Class of 2014 MFA Forest Grove, OR
2014 Featured Reader at Ziggies, Denver’s oldest Blues Bar
2014 Literary Burlesque in Telluride, CO
2014 Demimonde Historical Talk “Girls on The Line” Poetry and Telluride’s Red Light District at the Historical Museum
2013—present–established with co-director, Beth Paulson, Open Bard Poetry Series. Ridgway, CO
2013 “Editor-in Sheaf” of Ridgway Alley Poems in Ridgway, CO
2013 Poetry in EEEmotion- “water” A performance with Luis Lopez in Grand Junction, Colorado
2012 Featured Poet “Ekphrasis” Strong House Studio and Gallery – Ekphrastic Poetry printed on the Gallery Walls
2012 Judge for Mark Fischer Poetry Prize
2012 Featured Poet for Twenty by Telluride
2012 Featured Poet for Talking Gourds Poetry Series, Telluride CO
2012 & 2011 Poetry performer Telluride Arts Telethon Telluride, CO
2006 Judge for High School Poetry Contest, Ridgway CO
2000 Featured Writer, After Long Silence: New Voices, Seattle WA
Awards
2016 Finalist For the Jeff Marks Poetry Contest
Shortlisted for The Manchester Poetry Competition for a portfolio of work
2015 ACC Writer’s Award 1st Place Poetry
2014 Anne La Bastille Writing Resident for Poetry
2011 Winner of the Mark Fischer Poetry Prize
2012 3rd Place in poetry and prose, June Issue of Memoir Journal
2011 Finalist for the Broadsided Press “Haiku Year in Review” Fall
