Carmen Giménez Smith
Carmen Giménez Smith (born February 20, 1971 in New York City) is an American poet, writer and editor.
Giménez Smith earned a B.A. from San Jose State University and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. She is currently an assistant professor in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at New Mexico State University.[1] She also teaches in Ashland University's M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing.[2] Giménez Smith serves as publisher of Noemi Press and editor-in-chief of the literary journal Puerto del Sol,[3][4] and she holds a seat on the editorial committee at VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.[5]
In 2009, Giménez Smith was named to Poetry Society of America's biennial New American Poets Series.[6] In 2011, she was named a Howard Foundation Fellow in Creative Nonfiction;[7] her memoir, Bring Down the Little Birds, received an American Book Award;[citation needed] and her third collection of poems, Goodbye, Flicker, was awarded the Juniper Prize for Poetry.[8]
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[edit] Awards
- 2009 Poetry Society of America's New American Poets Series
- 2011 Juniper Prize for Poetry
- 2011 American Book Award
- 2011-2012 Howard Foundation Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction
[edit] Books
[edit] Poetry Collections
- Odalisque in Pieces (Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 2009).
- The City She Was (Ft. Collins, Center for Literary Publishing, 2011).
- Goodbye, Flicker (Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 2012).
[edit] Memoir
- Bring Down the Little Birds (Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 2010).
[edit] Fiction Anthology
- My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, edited with Kate Bernheimer (New York, Penguin, 2010).
[edit] Chapbooks
- Glitch (Zurich, Dusie Kollectiv, 2010)
- Reason's Monster (Zurich, Dusie Kollectiv, 2011)
- Can We Talk Here (New York, Belladonna Books, 2011)
[edit] References
- ^ "Faculty page at New Mexico State University". nmsu.edu. http://www.nmsu.edu/~english/mfa/faculty_carmen.php. Retrieved 2011-08-27.
- ^ "Faculty page at Ashland University". ashland.edu. http://www.ashland.edu/faculty/english/smith-carmen. Retrieved 2011-08-27.
- ^ "Faculty page at New Mexico State University". nmsu.edu. http://www.nmsu.edu/~english/mfa/faculty_carmen.php. Retrieved 2011-08-27.
- ^ "Masthead at Noemi Press". noemipress.org. http://www.noemipress.org/about.html. Retrieved 2011-08-27.
- ^ "Committees page at VIDA". vidaweb.org. http://vidaweb.org/about-vida/committees. Retrieved 2011-08-27.
- ^ "Poetry Society of America's New American Poets Series". poetrysociety.org. http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/new_american_poets/. Retrieved 2011-08-27.
- ^ "Howard Foundation Fellows". Brown.edu. http://www.brown.edu/Divisions/Graduate_School/Howard_Foundation/NewFellows.html. Retrieved 2011-08-27.
- ^ "ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE 2011 JUNIPER PRIZES". umass.edu. http://www.umass.edu/umpress/juniper_winners2011.pdf. Retrieved 2011-08-27.
[edit] External links
- Author site
- Featured in Poetry Society of America's New American Poets Series
- Biography at the Poetry Foundation
