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. She also teaches in Ashland University's Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing. Giménez Smith serves as publisher of Noemi Press and editor-in-chief of the literary journal Puerto del Sol, and she holds a seat on the editorial committee at VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. 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. 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.

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

Books

Poetry collections

• Milk and Filth (Tucson, The University of Arizona Press, 2013). ISBN 9780816521166
• Odalisque in Pieces (Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 2009). ISBN 9780816527885
• The City She Was (Ft. Collins, Center for Literary Publishing, 2011). ISBN 9781457111723
• Goodbye, Flicker (Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 2012). ISBN 9781558499492

Memoir

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

Fiction anthology

• My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, edited with Kate Bernheimer (New York, Penguin, 2010).

Chapbooks

• Glitch (Zurich, Dusie Kollectiv, 2010)
• Reason's Monster (Zurich, Dusie Kollectiv, 2011)
• Can We Talk Here (New York, Belladonna Books, 2011)

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