Bridget Quinn is the author, most recently, of Portrait of a Woman: Art, Rivalry & Revolution in the Life of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, a thirty year pursuit; and the books She Votes, an Amazon Editors’ pick for Best History books 2020, and the award-winning Broad Strokes, an Amazon pick for Best Art & Photography Books 2017 and a 2018 Amelia Bloomer List selection of recommended feminist literature from the American Library Association. Translated into four languages, in 2018 Broad Strokes was a national finalist for best art book of the year in Ukraine. NPR’s Susan Stamberg called it “a terrific essay collection” with “spunky attitudinal, SMART writing,” marking the second time “attitudinal” has been used about her work (first: Kirkus 1996). 

A writer, critic and art historian, her 2024 Nob Hill Gazette story on postwar Bay Area artists was named Best Feature Story by the San Francisco Press Club, and in 2013 her Narrative magazine essay “At Swim, Two Girls” was included in the annual anthology The Best American Sports Writing. Her essays and short fiction have been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize, including 2026 for her Alta Journal short story, “Renaissance, MT.”

Currently a doctoral candidate with Ghent University in Belgium, she’s a graduate of New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. She lives in San Diego with her family.