Carrie Etter
Carrie Etter (born 1969) is an American poet.
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[edit] Life
Originally from Normal, Illinois, she moved to Southern California at the age of 19, and on to London in 2001.
Etter holds a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MA and PhD from the University of California, Irvine. She was a visiting lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire for 2003–2004, teaching short-story writing and literature.
She is currently an Associate Lecturer at Bath Spa University.[1]
In the UK, her poems have appeared in Metre, Poetry Wales, Poetry Review, Reactions, Thumbscrew, The Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere, while in the US her poems have appeared in Aufgabe, Barrow Street, Columbia, Meridian, The New Republic, Seneca Review, and many other journals. She is also an essayist and a critic. Her reviews of contemporary poetry have appeared in The Liberal, New Welsh Review, Poetry Matters, The Times Literary Supplement, and Verse. Etter has published essays on W.B. Yeats and Sherman Alexie in W.B. Yeats and Post-Colonialism and Telling the Stories: Essays on American Indian Literatures and Cultures, respectively.[2]
She won a 2010 London Awards for Art and Performance.
[edit] Poetry collections
- Say Mercy ed. by Steve Boyett, Sneaker Press, 1992, ISBN 9781882813018
- Subterfuge of the Unrequitable Poets & Poets Press, 1998, ISBN 9780937013793
- Yet Leafe Press, 2008, ISBN 9780953540198
- The Tethers, Seren Books, 2009, ISBN 9781854114921
- The Son Oystercatcher Press, 2009, ISBN 9781905885244
- Divining for Starters Shearsman Books, 2011, ISBN 9781848611504
[edit] Anthologies
- Carrie Etter (ed) Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets, Shearsman Books, 2010, ISBN 9781848610996
