Carmen Giménez
{{Short description|American writer and editor}}
{{For|the Australian singer|Carmen Smith (disambiguation){{!}}Carmen Smith}}
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Carmen Giménez (born February 20, 1971), formerly known as Carmen Giménez Smith, is an American poet, writer, and editor.
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{{Cite news|url=https://liberalarts.vt.edu/departments-and-schools/department-of-english/faculty/carmen-gimenez-smith.html|title=Carmen Gimenez Smith|access-date=2018-08-20|language=en|archive-date=May 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504114503/https://liberalarts.vt.edu/departments-and-schools/department-of-english/faculty/carmen-gimenez-smith.html|url-status=dead}} and, prior to that, New Mexico State University.{{cite web |title=NewsPoet: Carmen Gimenez Smith's Day In Verse |url=https://www.npr.org/2012/05/21/153198357/newspoet-carmen-g-smith-writes-the-day-in-verse |website=NPR}} She teaches in Bennington College's Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing.{{cite web|url=https://www.bennington.edu/academics/faculty/carmen-gim%C3%A9nez|title=Faculty page at Bennington College|publisher=ashland.edu|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927150745/http://www.ashland.edu/faculty/english/smith-carmen|archivedate=September 27, 2011|url-status=dead|accessdate=August 27, 2011|df=mdy}}
Giménez founded the "historically brown and queer" Noemi Press in 2002,{{Cite web |title=About {{!}} Noemi Press |url=https://www.noemipress.org/about/ |access-date=2024-04-06 |website=noemipress.org |language=en-US}} and she is a founding fellow and co-director of CantoMundo.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cantomundo.org/blog/cantomundo-growing-leadership-team|title=CantoMundo Growing Leadership Team {{!}} CantoMundo|website=www.cantomundo.org|language=en|access-date=2018-08-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425222213/http://cantomundo.org/blog/cantomundo-growing-leadership-team|archive-date=April 25, 2019|url-status=dead}} In the fall of 2017, Giménez became editor of The Nation Poetry Section, alongside Stephanie Burt.{{Cite news|url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/11/harvard-poet-stephanie-burts-new-volume-explores-gender-memory/|title=Harvard poet Stephanie Burt's new volume explores gender, memory|date=2017-11-03|work=Harvard Gazette|access-date=2018-08-20|language=en-US}} In summer of 2022, Giménez became the Executive Director and Publisher of Graywolf Press.{{cite web |url=https://www.graywolfpress.org/news/carmen-gimenez-next-executive-director-and-publisher-graywolf-press |title=CARMEN GIMÉNEZ IS THE NEXT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND PUBLISHER OF GRAYWOLF PRESS | Graywolf Press }}
In 2009, Giménez was named to Poetry Society of America's biennial New American Poets Series.{{cite web|url=http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/new_american_poets/ |title=Poetry Society of America's New American Poets Series |publisher=poetrysociety.org |date= |accessdate=August 27, 2011}} In 2011, she was named a Howard Foundation Fellow in Creative Nonfiction;{{cite web |url=http://www.brown.edu/Divisions/Graduate_School/Howard_Foundation/NewFellows.html |title=Howard Foundation Fellows |publisher=Brown.edu |date= |accessdate=August 27, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607053603/http://www.brown.edu/Divisions/Graduate_School/Howard_Foundation/NewFellows.html |archive-date=June 7, 2011 |url-status=dead }} her memoir, Bring Down the Little Birds, received an American Book Award;{{Cite web|url=https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/carmen-gim%C3%A9nez-smith|title=Carmen Giménez Smith|last=Smith|first=Carmen Giménez|date=2010-09-08|website=Carmen Giménez Smith|language=en|access-date=2017-01-31}} and her third collection of poems, Goodbye, Flicker, was awarded the Juniper Prize for Poetry.{{cite web|url=http://www.umass.edu/umpress/juniper_winners2011.pdf |title=ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE 2011 JUNIPER PRIZES |publisher=umass.edu |accessdate=August 27, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110823005227/http://www.umass.edu/umpress/juniper_winners2011.pdf |archivedate=August 23, 2011 |df=mdy }} Milk and Filth was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/latino-literary-lens-our-talk-poet-publisher-carmen-gim-nez-n653626|title=Our talk with prolific poet, author and publisher Carmen Giménez Smith|work=NBC News|access-date=2018-08-20|language=en-US}} Her 2019 poetry collection Be Recorder was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry,{{cite web |url=https://www.nationalbook.org/the-2019-national-book-awards-finalists-announced/ |title=The 2019 National Book Awards Finalists Announced |date=October 7, 2019 }} the PEN/Open Book Award,{{cite web |url=https://pen.org/2020-pen-america-literary-awards-finalists/ |title=Announcing the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists |date=January 28, 2020 }} the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry,{{cite web |url=https://publishingtriangle.org/awards/audre-lorde-lesbian-poetry/ |title=The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry }} and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.{{cite web |last1=Wappler |first1=Margaret |title=Ronan Farrow, Emily Bazelon and Colson Whitehead among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-02-19/los-angeles-times-book-prizes-2019-finalists |work=Los Angeles Times|date=February 19, 2020 }}
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{{cite web |url=http://www.mhpbooks.com/nbcc-finalists-announced/ |title=NBCC finalists announced |work=Melville House Publishing |author=Kirsten Reach |date=January 14, 2014 |accessdate=January 14, 2014 |archive-date=January 8, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170108161918/http://www.mhpbooks.com/nbcc-finalists-announced/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/announcing-the-national-book-critics-awards-finalists |title=Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013 |publisher=National Book Critics Circle |date=January 14, 2014 |accessdate=January 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140115014055/http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/announcing-the-national-book-critics-awards-finalists |archive-date=January 15, 2014 |url-status=dead }}
- 2019 National Book Award for Poetry finalist for Be Recorder{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalbook.org/the-2019-national-book-awards-finalists-announced/|title=The 2019 National Book Awards Finalists Announced|date=2019-10-07|website=National Book Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-09}}
- 2019 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/carmen-gimenez-smith/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Carmen Giménez Smith|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-07}}
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
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External links
- [https://carmengimenez.net/ Author site]
- [http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/new_american_poets/carmen_gim_nez_smith/ Featured in Poetry Society of America's New American Poets Series]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130120122303/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/carmen-gimaenez-smith Biography at the Poetry Foundation]
- [http://www.wbur.org/npr/153198357/newspoet-carmen-g-smith-writes-the-day-in-verse "NewsPoet: Carmen Gimenez Smith's Day In Verse"], NPR, May 21, 2012
- {{cite news|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/#/news/latino/latino-lens-feminist-poet-draws-praise-new-book-n51071|title=Latino Lens: Feminist Poet Draws Praise for New Book |author=Erika L. Sánchez |work=NBC News}}
- [https://www.loc.gov/item/2016686152/ Carmen Giménez Smith recorded for the literary archive in the Hispanic Division at the Library of Congress on February 14, 2014.]
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