Bridget Kriner

is a community college professor in Cleveland Ohio. Her work has appeared in Rattle (Poets Respond), Book of Matches, Shelia-Na-Gig, Whiskey Island and Split this Rock, where she won First Place in the Abortion Rights Poetry Contest in 2012. She has two children—Winifred (9) and Henrietta (5), a dog (Josie), and a cat (Jenny). She has worked as a barista, bartender, abortion clinic patient advocate, union organizer, and fair housing tester.

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