Carolyn Hembree

Carolyn Hembree was born in Bristol, Tennessee. Her debut poetry collection, Skinny, came out from Kore Press in 2012. In 2016, Trio House Books published her second collection, Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague, selected by Neil Shepard for the 2015 Trio Award and by Stephanie Strickland for the 2015 Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award. Her work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, New American Writing, The Southern Review, West Branch, and other publications. She has received grants and fellowships from PEN, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, and the Southern Arts Federation as well as an ATLAS grant from the Lousiana Board of Regents. An associate professor at the University of New Orleans, Carolyn teaches writing and serves as poetry editor of Bayou Magazine.