Carrie Etter

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Carrie Etter
Born1969 (age 5556)
OccupationProfessor
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles,
University of California, Irvine
GenrePoetry
Notable awardsLondon Awards for Art and Performance

Carrie Etter (born 1969) is an American poet.

Life

Originally from Normal, Illinois, she moved to Southern California at the age of 19, and on to London in 2001. [1]

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Etter holds a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MFA, MA and PhD from the University of California, Irvine, gaining her doctorate in 2003 in English on mid-Victorian fiction and early British criminology. [2] She was a visiting lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire for 2003–2004, teaching short-story writing and literature, and she was a Reader at Bath Spa University, where she taught between 2004 and 2022. [3] She is currently guiding the new poetry provision in University of Bristol's Masters in Creative Writing. [4]

In the UK, her poems have appeared on the Poetry Society website, [5] in The New Statesman, Poetry Review, The Rialto, The Times Literary Supplement , and elsewhere, while in the US her poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, The New Republic, Seneca Review, and many other journals. She is also an essayist and a critic. Her reviews of contemporary poetry have appeared in The Independent , The Guardian, and The Times Literary Supplement, among others. Etter has published essays on Peter Reading, W. B. Yeats, and Sherman Alexie. [6] Her published poetry collections have appeared with Seren Books and Shearsman Books. [7]

She won a 2010 London Awards for Art and Performance, the London New Poetry Award for a best first collection published in the UK and Ireland in the preceding year, for The Tethers.[ citation needed ] In 2013 she received an Authors' Foundation grant from the Society of Authors for work on her third collection, Imagined Sons, which went on to be shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry by the Poetry Society. [7]

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References

  1. "Bio | Carrie Etter | Bath". Carrie Etter. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  2. Poetry Magazines: entry for Staple, No 60 - Summer 2004 Archived October 6, 2024, at the Wayback Machine
  3. School of English and Creative Studies Faculty page Archived January 14, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  4. "Twitter post". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  5. "Carrie Etter poem on Poetry Society site". Archived from the original on July 2, 2022. Retrieved October 4, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  6. ""Dialectic to Dialogic: Negotiating Bicultural Heritage in Sherman Alexie's Sonnets"". enotes.com.
  7. 1 2 the Poetry Society: biography for poet Carrie Etter Archived July 2, 2022, at the Wayback Machine