Carmen Giménez

For the Australian singer, see Carmen Smith.

Carmen Giménez (born February 20, 1971), formerly known as Carmen Giménez Smith, is an American poet, writer, and editor.

Carmen Giménez
Carmen Giménez at Virginia Tech
Born	(1971-02-20) February 20, 1971 (age 53) New York City
Alma mater	San Jose State University Iowa Writers' Workshop
Genre	Poetry
Notable works	Be Recorder
Website
carmengimenez.net

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

• 2009 Poetry Society of America's New American Poets Series
• 2011 Juniper Prize for Poetry
• 2011 American Book Award
• 2011–2012 Howard Foundation Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction
• 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award (Poetry) shortlist for Milk and Filth^[17][18]
• 2019 National Book Award for Poetry finalist for Be Recorder^[19]
• 2019 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship^[20]

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

• Bring Down the Little Birds (Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 2010). ISBN 9780816528691

Edited anthologies

• Angels of the Americlypse: an anthology of new Latin@ writing, edited with John Chavez (Denver: Counterpath, 2014).
• My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, edited with Kate Bernheimer (New York: Penguin, 2010).

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

1. "Carmen Gimenez Smith". Archived from the original on May 4, 2019. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
2. "NewsPoet: Carmen Gimenez Smith's Day In Verse". NPR.
3. "Faculty page at Bennington College". ashland.edu. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
4. "About | Noemi Press". noemipress.org. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
5. "CantoMundo Growing Leadership Team | CantoMundo". www.cantomundo.org. Archived from the original on April 25, 2019. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
6. "Harvard poet Stephanie Burt's new volume explores gender, memory". Harvard Gazette. November 3, 2017. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
7. "CARMEN GIMÉNEZ IS THE NEXT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND PUBLISHER OF GRAYWOLF PRESS | Graywolf Press".
8. "Poetry Society of America's New American Poets Series". poetrysociety.org. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
9. "Howard Foundation Fellows". Brown.edu. Archived from the original on June 7, 2011. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
10. Smith, Carmen Giménez (September 8, 2010). "Carmen Giménez Smith". Carmen Giménez Smith. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
11. "ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE 2011 JUNIPER PRIZES" (PDF). umass.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 23, 2011. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
12. "Our talk with prolific poet, author and publisher Carmen Giménez Smith". NBC News. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
13. "The 2019 National Book Awards Finalists Announced". October 7, 2019.
14. "Announcing the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists". January 28, 2020.
15. "The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry".
16. Wappler, Margaret (February 19, 2020). "Ronan Farrow, Emily Bazelon and Colson Whitehead among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists". Los Angeles Times.
17. Kirsten Reach (January 14, 2014). "NBCC finalists announced". Melville House Publishing. Archived from the original on January 8, 2017. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
18. "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.
19. "The 2019 National Book Awards Finalists Announced". National Book Foundation. October 7, 2019. Retrieved October 9, 2019.
20. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Carmen Giménez Smith". Retrieved February 7, 2020.

External links

• Author site
• Featured in Poetry Society of America's New American Poets Series
• Biography at the Poetry Foundation
• "NewsPoet: Carmen Gimenez Smith's Day In Verse", NPR, May 21, 2012
• Erika L. Sánchez. "Latino Lens: Feminist Poet Draws Praise for New Book". NBC News.
• Carmen Giménez Smith recorded for the literary archive in the Hispanic Division at the Library of Congress on February 14, 2014.