Bridget Meeds has published poetry with Faber and Faber, the American Poetry Review, and many small presses. Among her creative projects, she was a poet-in-residence at the Wilson Laboratory Synchrotron; co-wrote lyrics to a song cycle that premiered at Carnegie Hall, and collaborated on an experimental film that premiered at MoMA. She is the founder of Widows and Orphans Books and co-founder of Ithaca City of Asylum, a non-profit that hosts dissident writers. She has degrees from Lancaster University and Ithaca College.