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Carrie Fountain is an American poet and writer of young adult fiction. She served as 2019 Poet Laureate of Texas.

She is from Las Cruces, New Mexico. She was a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers,[1] and received Swink Magazine's Award for Emerging Writers and the Marlboro Poetry Prize. She wrote for The Texas Observer,[2] and was poetry columnist for the Austin American-Statesman.[3]

Her work has appeared in Cimarron Review, Black Warrior Review, 32 Poems,[4] and Missouri Review Online. She lives in Austin, Texas and teaches at St. Edward's University .[5]

She was named the 2019 Poet Laureate of Texas.[6]

She is married to the playwright Kirk Lynn.

Awards

• 2009 National Poetry Series, for Burn Lake

Works

• "Purple Heart", Marlboro Review
• "Burn Lake 2", Swink, 2007
• "Father and Son at the Mesilla Valley Drive-thru Bank", AGNI
• "Theory of Perfection", AGNI
• "El Camino Real 3 ", Poetry for Children
• "Will You"
• Burn Lake. Penguin Group USA, 2010, ISBN 978-0-14-311771-1
• Instant Winner: Poems. Penguin Group USA, 2014, ISBN 978-0143126638
• I'm Not Missing: A Novel. Flatiron Books, New York, 2018, ISBN 978-1250132512

References

External links

• "Carrie Fountain’s, Burn Lake", September 19, 2009

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