Carmen Giménez (born February 20, 1971), also 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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Life
editGiménez 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
edit- 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
editPoetry collections
edit- 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
edit- Bring Down the Little Birds (Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 2010). ISBN 9780816528691
Edited anthologies
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- ^ "Carmen Gimenez Smith". Archived from the original on May 4, 2019. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
- ^ "NewsPoet: Carmen Gimenez Smith's Day In Verse". NPR.
- ^ "Faculty page at Bennington College". ashland.edu. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
- ^ "About | Noemi Press". noemipress.org. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
- ^ "CantoMundo Growing Leadership Team | CantoMundo". www.cantomundo.org. Archived from the original on April 25, 2019. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
- ^ "Harvard poet Stephanie Burt's new volume explores gender, memory". Harvard Gazette. November 3, 2017. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
- ^ "CARMEN GIMÉNEZ IS THE NEXT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND PUBLISHER OF GRAYWOLF PRESS | Graywolf Press".
- ^ "Poetry Society of America's New American Poets Series". poetrysociety.org. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE 2011 JUNIPER PRIZES" (PDF). umass.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 23, 2011. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
- ^ "Our talk with prolific poet, author and publisher Carmen Giménez Smith". NBC News. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
- ^ "The 2019 National Book Awards Finalists Announced". October 7, 2019.
- ^ "Announcing the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists". January 28, 2020.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "The 2019 National Book Awards Finalists Announced". National Book Foundation. October 7, 2019. Retrieved October 9, 2019.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Carmen Giménez Smith". Retrieved February 7, 2020.
External links
edit- 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.