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Carmen Giménez (born February 20, 1971), formerly known as Carmen Giménez Smith, is an American poet, writer, and editor.
Carmen Giménez | |
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 Carmen Giménez at Virginia Tech | |
| Born | February 20, 1971 New York City |
| Alma mater | San Jose State University Iowa Writers' Workshop |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable works | Be Recorder |
| Website | |
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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]
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- 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]
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)
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