Carolyn Creedon (born 1969)
Newport News, Virginia
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is an American
poet
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.
Life
She left college and worked as a waitress in
San Francisco
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.
She graduated from
Smith College
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,
Washington University in St. Louis
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, and the
University of Virginia
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with an M.F.A.
Her work has appeared in ''The American Poetry Review'', ''The Massachusetts Review'', ''Yale Review''.
She wrote a letter in support of the Green Street Cafe.
She is married to Paul Andrews.
She lives in
Charlottesville, Virginia
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.
Awards
*2008 Study Abroad Programs in Arts and Writing Contest runner-up
*2005
Glascock poetry prize
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Academy of American Poets prize
Works
*''Wet: Poems'', Kent State University Press, 2012,
Anthologies
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*Mary Esselman, Elizabeth Velez, eds. ''You Drive Me Crazy: Love Poems for Real Life'' Hachette Digital, Inc., 2008,
"for the woman painter, because things grow"; "dear god i"; "bonepsalm", ''serve''"How to Be a Cowgirl in a Studio Apartment"
''Rattle'' #32, Winter 2009
''Ploughshares''
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References
External links
1969 births
Living people
People from Newport News, Virginia
Smith College alumni
University of Virginia alumni
American women poets
21st-century American poets
21st-century American women writers
Washington University in St. Louis alumni
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