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 The Shore,Variant Literary,New Delta Review,Rattle Poets Respond, and Split this Rock, where she won First Place in the Abortion Rights Poetry Contest. Over the last several years, she has participated in the Sewanee Writers' Conference and Kenyon Review Summer Residential Workshop. She is a supporting editor atTrioHouse Pressand a reader at Chestnut Reviewand Only Poems! Over the course of her working life, she worked as a barista, bartender, abortion clinic patient advocate, union organizer, and fair housing tester.work
- "On Aftertaste"
in The Shore, Issue 29 - Spring 2026 - "The Day Before My Daughter Turns 9"
in Gyroscope Review, Issue 26-2 - Spring 2026 - "Ars Poetica as Libation"
in Smitten with the Written, Arcana Poetry Press 2026 - "Lightning Just Finds Some People"
"When Scorpio Rises, the Hunter Flees Below the Horizon"
in like a field Spring 2025 - "There is an Asterisk Inside"
in Blue Moon Review Spring 2025 - "For the Record"
"Where Taylor Rd Dead Ends at Fairmount Blvd"
in The Marbled Sigh Summer 2024 - "Nix v. Hedden"
in New Delta Review, Issue 14.2 - Spring 2024 - "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
interviews, reviews, & other writing
- "Untangling Our Poems from the Strings of the Universe: A Conversation with Emily Hyland"
in Trio House Press Substack , January 19, 2026 - "Ask Not What Poetry Can Do For You: Becoming a Good Literary Citizen"
in The Poetry Lab Resources Center, October 28, 2025 - "Finding a Way Through the Woods: A Conversation with Elline Lipkin"
in Trio House Press Substack, August 25, 2025 - "Tales from the Queue"
in Chestnut Review, Issue 7.1, Summer 2025 - "In-Between Spaces: A Conversation with Rhoni Blankenhorn"
in Trio House Press Substack, March 5, 2025 - "Repeat After Me: Patterns of Poetic Repetition"
in The Poetry Lab Resources Center, November 5, 2024 - "A Joke Walks into a Poem: Using Humor in Poetry"
in The Poetry Lab Resources Center, July 23, 2024 - "Get to the Bottom of It: Fun with Footnotes"
in The Poetry Lab Resources Center, May 4, 2024 - "Making it Work: Five Jobs for Poem Titles"
in The Poetry Lab Resources Center, April 1, 2024 - "That's So Meta: 8 Ars Poetica Poems"
in The Poetry Lab Resources Center, January 29, 2024
recognition
- 2023 Chapbook Contest, Button Poetry, Semi-Finalist
- 2023 Chapbook Prize, Palette Poetry Chapbook Prize, Longlist
- 2023 Minds on Fire Open Book Prize, Conduit book & Ephemera, Semi-Finalist
- Adobe Press Chapbook Contest, 2023 Chapbook Contest, Finalist
- First Annual Summer Chapbook Contest, 2023 Quarter After Eight, Finalist
- 2012 Abortion Rights Poetry Contest, Split This Rock, First Place
experience
- The Kenyon Review Summer Residential Writers Workshop, 2024
- The Poetry Lab, 2024 Collaborating Fellow
- Sewanee Writers Conference, Poetry Contributor, 2023
- Breadloaf Writers Conference, Poetry Participant, 1998