Helga Kidder

Helga Kidder is a native of Germany's Black Forest and lives in the Tennessee hills with her husband. She was awarded an MFA from Vermont College and is co-founder of the Chattanooga Writers Guild, leading their poetry group. Her poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies, were nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has participated in workshops in the United States and abroad. Author of four collections of poetry, Wild Plums, Luckier than the Stars, Blackberry Winter, and Loving the Dead which won the Blue Light Press Book Award in 2020, she has completed another collection of poems, Learning Curve, dealing with transference from one language to another. This collection is slated for publication in late fall 2021.