Carol Potter

Carol Potter is an American poet and academic.

Life
Potter was born and raised in northwestern Connecticut. She earned a B.A. in English/Journalism and Women's Studies from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and an M.F.A. from the that university's MFA Program for Poets & Writers.

Potter taught for 17 years at Holyoke Community College, and currently teaches in the MFA program at Antioch University in Los Angeles, as well as at Community College of Vermont in Newport. She lives in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom.

Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including Poetry Magazine, FIELD, The Massachusetts Review, The American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, Women's Review of Books, Prairie Schooner, Maize, The Journal, and Arts & Letters and in anthologies including Pushcart XXVI. She won a dA center for the Arts Poetry Award and has received residency and fellowship grants from MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Fundacion Valparaiso, Villa Montalvo, Centrum, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She was also Writer-in-Residence at Thurber House in 2003, and Visiting Poet at the Indiana University MFA Program (2003–2004).

Recognition

 * 2001 The Balcones Poetry Prize
 * 2001 Pushcart Prize
 * 1999 Cleveland State University Poetry Center Award
 * 1990 New Letters Award for Poetry
 * 1986 Tom McAfee Discovery Award from The Missouri Review

Publications

 * Before We Were Born. Alice James Books, 1990.
 * Upside Down In The Dark. Alice James Books, 1995.
 * Short History of Pets. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2000.
 * Otherwise Obedient (Red Hen Press, 2008.