Carmen Giménez Smith

Presented by the Contemporary Writers Series through the Creative Writing and Literature program at Mills College. 

Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of a memoir and six poetry collections, including Milk and Filth, a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award. Her newest collection is Be Recorder, published by Graywolf Press. She was awarded an American Book Award for Bring Down the Little Birds and the Juniper Prize for Poetry for her collection Goodbye, Flicker. She is the publisher of Noemi Press, co-director for Canto Mundo, and co-edited Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing. Giménez Smith is a Professor of English at Virginia Tech and with Steph Burt, poetry editor of The Nation. 

Event is free and open to the public. 

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