Carmen Jimenez SmithCarmen Giménez Smith, a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, was born in New York City, received a BA in English at San Jose State University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of a memoir and four poetry collections, including Milk andFilth, a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle award in poetry. She was awarded an American Book Award for her memoir Bring Down the Little Birds and the Juniper Prize for Poetry for her collection Goodbye, Flicker. She recently co-edited Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing, an anthology of contemporary Latino poetry, fiction and nonfiction, published by Counterpath Press. She has received fellowships from the Howard Foundation, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Ragdale Foundation and CantoMundo. She teaches in the creative writing program at New Mexico State University while serving as the publisher of Noemi Press. Noemi has published over 40 full-length collections of poetry and fiction, which have received reviews in Boston Review, Publishers Weekly, The Rumpus, and Pleiades. With Francisco Aragon, she co-founded the Akrilica Series, a Noemi book series for innovative writing by Latinos, and Infidel Poetics, a series of short-form poetics on gender, identity, and the 21st century. Read More Read Less