Carmen Giménez Smith
Carmen Giménez Smith is an American poet, writer and editor.Life
Giménez Smith 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 is currently a professor in English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She also teaches in Bennington College's Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing. Giménez Smith is the founder and publisher of Noemi Press, and she is a founding fellow and co-director of CantoMundo. In the fall of 2017, Giménez Smith became editor of The Nation's Poetry Section, alongside Stephanie Burt.
In 2009, Giménez Smith was named to Poetry Society of America's biennial . In 2011, she was named a Howard Foundation Fellow in Creative Nonfiction; her memoir, Bring Down the Little Birds, received an American Book Award; and her third collection of poems, Goodbye, Flicker, was awarded the Juniper Prize for Poetry. Milk and Filth was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.Awards
Poetry collections
- Be Recorder.
- Odalisque in Pieces.
- The City She Was.
- Goodbye, Flicker.
- Milk and Filth.
- Cruel Futures: City Lights Spotlight Series No. 17
Memoir
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Edited anthologies
- Angels of the Americlypse : an anthology of new Latin@ writing, edited with John Chavez.
- My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, edited with Kate Bernheimer.
Chapbooks
- Glitch
- Reason's Monster
- Can We Talk Here
- Jokey Poems Up to Ten
