Carrie Fountain Explained
Carrie Fountain is an American poet and writer of young adult fiction. She served as 2019 Poet Laureate of Texas.
She is from Las Cruces, New Mexico. She was a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers,[1] and received Swink Magazines Award for Emerging Writers and the Marlboro Poetry Prize. She wrote for The Texas Observer,[2] and was poetry columnist for the Austin American-Statesman.[3]
Her work has appeared in Cimarron Review, Black Warrior Review, 32 Poems,[4] and Missouri Review Online. She lives in Austin, Texas and teaches at St. Edward's University.[5]
She was named the 2019 Poet Laureate of Texas.[6]
Awards
Works
- "Purple Heart", Marlboro Review
- "Burn Lake 2", Swink, 2007
- "Father and Son at the Mesilla Valley Drive-thru Bank", AGNI
- "Theory of Perfection", AGNI
- "El Camino Real 3 ", Poetry for Children
- https://poets.org/poem/will-you "Will You"
- Burn Lake. Penguin Group USA, 2010,
- Instant Winner: Poems. Penguin Group USA, 2014,
- I'm Not Missing: A Novel. Flatiron Books, New York, 2018,
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: AGNI Online: Author Carrie Fountain . 2010-05-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100823113312/http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/C/Carrie-Fountain.html . 2010-08-23 . dead .
- Web site: The Texas Observer > Carrie Fountain's Articles . 2010-05-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100628095002/http://www.texasobserver.org/author_bib.php?aid=175 . 2010-06-28 .
- Web site: Archived copy . 2010-05-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110607062612/http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/books/entries/2009/09/16/austin_winners.html . 2011-06-07 . dead .
- Web site: Issues | 32 Poems Magazine.
- Web site: Humanities Faculty & Staff | School of Humanities . 2011-07-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111026233830/http://think.stedwards.edu/humanities/facultystaff . 2011-10-26 . dead .
- Web site: Author, Poet, and Podcast Host Carrie Fountain Isn't Trying to Trick You . The Austin Chronicle . 5 April 2019.
