Carmen Giménez Smith



Carmen Giménez Smith (born February 20, 1971 in New York City) is an American poet, writer and editor.

Life
Giménez Smith earned a B.A. from San Jose State University and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. She is currently an assistant professor in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at New Mexico State University. She also teaches in Ashland University's M.F.A. 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.

Recognition
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.

Recognition

 * 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

Poetry Collections

 * Odalisque in Pieces (Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 2009).
 * The City She Was (Ft. Collins, Center for Literary Publishing, 2011).
 * Goodbye, Flicker (Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 2012).

Memoir

 * Bring Down the Little Birds (Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 2010).

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)