Carmen Giménez Smith

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Carmen Giménez Smith

Carmen Giménez Smith at 2012 Fall for the Book
Born (1971-02-20) February 20, 1971
New York City
Alma mater San Jose State University; Iowa Writers' Workshop
Genre Poetry
Spouse Evan Lavender-Smith

Carmen Giménez Smith (born February 20, 1971 in New York City) is an American poet, writer and editor.

Life

Giménez Smith earned a Bachelor of Arts from San Jose State University and an Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. She is currently an assistant professor in the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at New Mexico State University.[1] She also teaches in Ashland University's Master of Fine Arts 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] She is married to writer Evan Lavender-Smith.

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; and her third collection of poems, Goodbye, Flicker, was awarded the Juniper Prize for Poetry.[8]

Awards

Books

Poetry collections

Memoir

Fiction anthology

Chapbooks

References

  1. "Faculty page at New Mexico State University". nmsu.edu. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
  2. "Faculty page at Ashland University". ashland.edu. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
  3. "Faculty page at New Mexico State University". nmsu.edu. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
  4. "Masthead at Noemi Press". noemipress.org. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
  5. "Committees page at VIDA". vidaweb.org. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
  6. "Poetry Society of America's New American Poets Series". poetrysociety.org. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
  7. "Howard Foundation Fellows". Brown.edu. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
  8. "ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE 2011 JUNIPER PRIZES" (PDF). umass.edu. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
  9. Kirsten Reach (January 14, 2014). "NBCC finalists announced". Melville House Publishing. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
  10. "Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013". National Book Critics Circle. January 14, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2014.

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