Kim Addonizio is the author of five collections of poetry including Tell Me, a 2000 National Book Award Finalist. Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA Fellowships, the John Ciardi Lifetime Achievement Award, and other honors. She has published two instructional books: Ordinary Genius, A Guide for the Poet Within; and The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (with Dorianne Laux). She has a word/music CD with Susan Browne, Swearing, Smoking, Drinking & Kissing, available from CDBaby. Her most recent collection of poems is Lucifer at the Starlite (Norton, 2009). She will be reading with fellow Red Room Author Susan Browne.