Carrie Fountain is an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

and writer of

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. She served as 2019 Poet Laureate of

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. She is from

Las Cruces, New Mexico Las Cruces (; ; lit. 'the crosses') is the List of municipalities in New Mexico, second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico and the county seat, seat of Doña Ana County, New Mexico, Doña Ana County. As of the 2020 United States ce ...

. She was a fellow at the

Michener Center for Writers The Michener Center for Writers is a Masters of Fine Arts program in fiction, poetry, playwriting, and screenwriting at the University of Texas at Austin. Bret Anthony Johnston is the current director of the program. Previously, James Magnuson ra ...

, and received ''Swink Magazines Award for Emerging Writers and the Marlboro Poetry Prize. She wrote for ''

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''. Her work has appeared in ''Cimarron Review, Black Warrior Review, 32 Poems, and Missouri Review Online''. She lives in

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and teaches at

St. Edward's University St. Edward's University is a private, Catholic university in Austin, Texas, United States. It was founded and is operated in the Holy Cross tradition. History Founding and early history St. Edward's University was founded by the Reverend Edwa ...

. She was named the 2019 Poet Laureate of Texas.

Awards

*2009

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, for ''Burn Lake''

Works

"Purple Heart"
''Marlboro Review''

''Swink'', 2007

''AGNI''

''AGNI''

''Poetry for Children''

"Will You" *''Burn Lake.'' Penguin Group USA, 2010, *''Instant Winner: Poems.'' Penguin Group USA, 2014, *''I'm Not Missing: A Novel.'' Flatiron Books, New York, 2018,

References

External links

"Carrie Fountain’s, Burn Lake"
September 19, 2009 Year of birth missing (living people) People from Las Cruces, New Mexico Poets laureate of Texas Living people American women poets American young adult novelists 21st-century American women American women writers of young adult literature {{US-poet-stub