Kim Suzanne Bridgford (August 8, 1959 – June 28, 2020) was an American poet, writer, critic, and academic.

[9] In 1994, she moved to Wallingford, Connecticut with her husband, Peter Duval, an award-winning author of fiction.

[11] Bridgford died from cancer on June 28, 2020, at the age of 60, at a hospice care center in Bettendorf, Iowa.

[12] In 1994, Bridgford was named Connecticut Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

[15] That year, her book In the Extreme: Sonnets about World Records received the 2007 Donald Justice Poetry Award.