Helga Karin Kidder is a native of Germany’s
Black Forest. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors
in English: Writing, from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
and a Masters Degree of Fine Arts from Vermont College in Montpelier.
In addition to her own writing, she translates contemporary
German poets and has a translation chapbook, Gravel.
Her poetry and translations have appeared in many journals.
She is married and has two daughters. She teaches English at
Chattanooga State Technical Community College.
A former CWG board member and leader of our independent poetry
group, Helga has just had poems accepted at Louisville Review
and The Pegasus Review.
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