Bridget Lowe is the author of the poetry collections My Second Work (2020) and At the Autopsy of Vaslav Nijinsky (2013), both from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her poems have appeared widely in publications including The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, The New Republic, Southern Review, New England Review, A Public Space, Plume, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Her short fiction is forthcoming in journals and an essay on ethics in architecture was featured in Madame Architect. Her honors include the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Discovery/92NY Poetry Award, a fellowship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and a previous residency at MacDowell through the support of the Rona Jaffe Foundation. She lives in Kansas City, where she was born, and is currently working on completing her third collection of poetry.
At MacDowell in 2011, Lowe completed her first book of poetry. During her 2026 residency, she worked toward the completion of her third collection of poetry and a novel in progress. Poems from the poetry collection appeared in 2025 in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, the New England Review, and the Southern Review, for which she was awarded the Oran Robert Perry Burke Award for an exceptional collection of poems published in the journal that year.
