She attended Sacred Heart Convent School and earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Windsor.
Marie Antoinette | Marie Curie | Marie Osmond | William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe | Sault Ste. Marie | Buffy Sainte-Marie | Lord Howe Island | Gordie Howe | Marie Claire | Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario | Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma | Marie Lloyd | Adrien-Marie Legendre | William Howe | Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe | Marie | Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan | Marie de' Medici | Jean Victor Marie Moreau | Jean-Marie Le Pen | Charles-Marie Widor | Anne-Marie Albiach | Marie of Brabant, Queen of France | Julia Ward Howe | Teena Marie | Rose Marie | Eva Marie Saint | Sault Ste. Marie (disambiguation) | Marie-Pierre Castel | Marie Laforêt |
She received her MFA from New York University in 2001, where she studied with Sharon Olds, Philip Levine, Marie Howe, Mark Doty, Agha Shahid Ali, and Tom Sleigh.
Past judges of the BLR competitions have included Marie Howe, Rick Moody, Richard Selzer, Rafael Campo, Amy Hempel, Sherwin Nuland, Edward Hirsch, Ray Gonzalez, Abraham Verghese, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rosellen Brown, Natalie Angier, Gail Godwin, Phillip Lopate and Tony Hoagland.
Since then, Dimitrov has hosted the following writers: John Ashbery, Frank Bidart, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Henri Cole, CAConrad, Michael Cunningham, Mark Doty, Louise Glück, Jorie Graham, Richard Howard, Marie Howe, Wayne Koestenbaum, Dorothea Lasky, Timothy Liu, Daniel Mendelsohn, Eileen Myles, Carl Phillips, Brenda Shaughnessy, David Trinidad, and Edmund White.