too young to know

Kevin Ridgeway was raised in Whittier CA. He has lived in New York City Vermont Massachusetts and Maine. He attended Goddard College but abandoned his studies for a failed early marriage followed by several lost years suffering from untreated bipolar disorder during which time he embarked on a drunken public library and used book store self education with silent movies playing on his t.v. set and old school rock n roll grooving from his turntable. He began contributing to the small independent and underground presses in 2010 and has remained prolifc ever since. He is the author of nine chapbooks of poetry. A two-time Pushcart Prize and two-time Best of the Net nominee he lives and writes in Long Beach CA.