Carolyn Hembree

Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

English Dept / Liberal Arts Building University of New Orleans

New Orleans, LA 70148

Email:

chembree@uno.edu

Phone:

(504) 258-4205

Bio:

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 Colorado Review, Drunken Boat, The Journal, Poetry Daily, and other publications. She has received grants and fellowships from PEN, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, and the Southern Arts Federation. An assistant professor at the University of New Orleans, Carolyn teaches writing and serves as poetry editor of Bayou Magazine.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Born in:

Bristol

Raised in:

Bristol, TN

Tennessee

Website:

http://www.carolynhembree.com [2]

Prizes won:

2015 Trio Award for _Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague_

2015 Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award for _Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague_

What I'm reading now:

The Emily Dickinson Handbook by ed. Gudrun Grabher

Patter by Douglas Kearney

Une Saison en Enfer by Arthur Rimbaud

Maximum Gaga by Lara Plenum

Prefers to work with:

Any