Carrie Fountain
Carrie Fountain is an American poet.
She is from Las Cruces, New Mexico. She was a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers,[1] and received Swink Magazine's Award for Emerging Writers and the Marlboro Poetry Prize. She wrote for the Texas Observer,[2] and was poetry columnist for the Austin American-Statesman,[3] and is program director of Grrl Action, a mentorship program for teenage girls.[4][5]
Her work has appeared in Cimarron Review, Black Warrior Review, 32 Poems,[6] and Missouri Review Online. She lives in Austin, Texas. She teaches at Austin Community College.[7]
She is married to the playwright Kirk Lynn.
Awards
- 2009 National Poetry Series, for Burn Lake
Works
- "Purple Heart", Marlboro Review
- "Burn Lake 2", Swink, 2007
- "Father and Son at the Mesilla Valley Drive-thru Bank", AGNI
- "Theory of Perfection", AGNI
- "El Camino Real 3 ", Poetry for Children
- Burn Lake. Penguin Group USA, 2010, ISBN 9780143117711
References
- ^ http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/C/Carrie-Fountain.html
- ^ http://www.texasobserver.org/author_bib.php?aid=175
- ^ http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/books/entries/2009/09/16/austin_winners.html
- ^ "Rude Mechanicals: Grrl Action impacts Austin", Austin Chronicle, BARRY PINEO, JULY 20, 2007
- ^ http://www.versedaily.org/2008/aboutcarriefountaincw.shtml
- ^ http://www.32poems.com/issues/
- ^ http://www.austincc.edu/crw/Faculty/fountain_c.html
External links
- "Carrie Fountain’s, Burn Lake", September 19, 2009