American poet
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 Magazine' s 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
[1] "Will You"
Burn Lake. Penguin Group USA, 2010, ISBN 978-0-14-311771-1
Instant Winner: Poems. Penguin Group USA, 2014, ISBN 978-0143126638
I'm Not Missing: A Novel. Flatiron Books, New York, 2018, ISBN 978-1250132512
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