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American writer and editor
Carmen Giménez (born February 20, 1971), also known as Carmen Giménez Smith , is an American poet, writer, and editor.
Life
Giménez earned a Bachelor of Arts from
San Jose State University and a
Master of Fine Arts from the
Iowa Writers' Workshop , where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. She was recently a professor in English at
Virginia Tech
[1] and, prior to that,
New Mexico State University .
[2] She teaches in
Bennington College 's Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing.
[3]
Giménez founded the "historically brown and queer"
Noemi Press in 2002,
[4] and she is a founding fellow and co-director of
CantoMundo .
[5] In the fall of 2017, Giménez became editor of
The Nation Poetry Section, alongside
Stephanie Burt .
[6] In summer of 2022, Giménez became the Executive Director and Publisher of
Graywolf Press .
[7]
In 2009, Giménez was named to
Poetry Society of America 's biennial New American Poets Series.
[8] In 2011, she was named a Howard Foundation Fellow in Creative Nonfiction;
[9] her memoir, Bring Down the Little Birds , received an
American Book Award ;
[10] and her third collection of poems, Goodbye, Flicker, was awarded the
Juniper Prize for Poetry .
[11] Milk and Filth was a finalist for the 2013
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry .
[12] Her 2019 poetry collection Be Recorder was a finalist for the
National Book Award for Poetry ,
[13] the
PEN/Open Book Award,
[14] the
Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry,
[15] and the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize .
[16]
Awards
Books
Poetry collections
Be Recorder (Minneapolis,
Graywolf Press , 2019).
ISBN
9781555978488
Cruel Futures: City Lights Spotlight Series No. 17 (City Lights, 2018)
ISBN
978-0872867581
Milk and Filth (Tucson,
The University of Arizona Press , 2013).
ISBN
9780816521166
Goodbye, Flicker (Amherst,
University of Massachusetts Press , 2012).
ISBN
9781558499492
The City She Was (Ft. Collins, Center for Literary Publishing, 2011).
ISBN
9781457111723
Odalisque in Pieces (Tucson,
University of Arizona Press , 2009).
ISBN
9780816527885
Memoir
Edited anthologies
Chapbooks
Jokey Poems Up to Ten (Zurich, Dusie Kollectiv, 2013)
Can We Talk Here (New York,
Belladonna Books , 2011)
Reason's Monster (Zurich, Dusie Kollectiv, 2011)
Glitch (Zurich, Dusie Kollectiv, 2010)
References
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"Carmen Gimenez Smith" . Archived from
the original on May 4, 2019. Retrieved August 20, 2018 .
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"NewsPoet: Carmen Gimenez Smith's Day In Verse" .
NPR .
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"Faculty page at Bennington College" . ashland.edu. Archived from
the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved August 27, 2011 .
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"About | Noemi Press" . noemipress.org . Retrieved April 6, 2024 .
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"CantoMundo Growing Leadership Team | CantoMundo" . www.cantomundo.org . Archived from
the original on April 25, 2019. Retrieved August 20, 2018 .
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"Harvard poet Stephanie Burt's new volume explores gender, memory" . Harvard Gazette . November 3, 2017. Retrieved August 20, 2018 .
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"CARMEN GIMÉNEZ IS THE NEXT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND PUBLISHER OF GRAYWOLF PRESS | Graywolf Press" .
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"Poetry Society of America's New American Poets Series" . poetrysociety.org. Retrieved August 27, 2011 .
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"Howard Foundation Fellows" . Brown.edu. Archived from
the original on June 7, 2011. Retrieved August 27, 2011 .
^ Smith, Carmen Giménez (September 8, 2010).
"Carmen Giménez Smith" . Carmen Giménez Smith . Retrieved January 31, 2017 .
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"ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE 2011 JUNIPER PRIZES" (PDF) . umass.edu. Archived from
the original (PDF) on August 23, 2011. Retrieved August 27, 2011 .
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"Our talk with prolific poet, author and publisher Carmen Giménez Smith" . NBC News . Retrieved August 20, 2018 .
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"The 2019 National Book Awards Finalists Announced" . October 7, 2019.
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"Announcing the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists" . January 28, 2020.
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"The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry" .
^ Wappler, Margaret (February 19, 2020).
"Ronan Farrow, Emily Bazelon and Colson Whitehead among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists" . Los Angeles Times .
^ Kirsten Reach (January 14, 2014).
"NBCC finalists announced" .
Melville House Publishing . Archived from
the original on January 8, 2017. Retrieved January 14, 2014 .
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"Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013" . National Book Critics Circle. January 14, 2014. Archived from
the original on January 15, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2014 .
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"The 2019 National Book Awards Finalists Announced" . National Book Foundation . October 7, 2019. Retrieved October 9, 2019 .
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"John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Carmen Giménez Smith" . Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
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