I’m a queer Chicago writer. You can read my work in DIAGRAM, Tupelo Quarterly, The Rumpus, or somewhere else.
My debut collection of essays, Carrion, was selected by the wonderful, fiery Kazim Ali as the winner of the Quill Prose Award. My essay, and Melancholia, was selected as a winner of Essay Press's 2015 chapbook contest.
My work is generally lyric and smudges genre distinctions to varying degrees. I write about the body, things that fall out of the sky, and millennial abjection. I delight when those are fascicle.
I like to think about the poetics of identity and semiotics in creative nonfiction. My current project is a work of autotheory that explores the 2001 film, Kairo (Kurosawa), and the uncomfortable relationship between the body and the internet.
But, mostly, I teach. Mostly. My students and I shine when we workshop or discuss Rankine’s Citizen, Carson’s Plainwater, Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Larsen’s Passing. We love giggling about Puritans, we’re really rigorous in our studies of graphic narratives x culture.
To Wit: Flash Interviews—Wes Jamison
Me
“Anne Carson. (Could you hear how quickly I said that?)”
Assay Journal
“What writer do you want to be when you grow up?”
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2010: BA English, Otterbein University
2013: MFA Creative Nonfiction, Columbia College Chicago
2022: PhD Creative Writing
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2021: Quill Prose Award, selected by Kazim Ali, Red Hen Press
2021: Anderson Award in Medieval Studies
2016: Chapbook Contest, selected by Julie Carr, Essay Press
2011: Essay Contest Winner, South Loop Review
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2022: “Mother,” Gigantic Sequins, vol. 13
2011: “The Secret Garden,” South Loop Review, vol. 13
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2020: Book Award longlist, Tarpaulin Sky Press
2017: Pushcart Prize nomination, cahoodaloodaling
2017: Chapbook Contest finalist, Gambling the Aisle
2016: Open Prose Contest finalist, selected by Maggie Nelson, 1913: A Journal of Forms
2016: Sixth-Ever Contest finalist, The Cupboard Pamphlet
2015: Lamar York Prize finalist, Chatahoochee Review
2014: First Book Prize finalist, selected by Claudia Rankine, 1913: A Journal of Forms
