Carrie Oeding (born 1978) is an American poet.

Life

She was born and raised in Luverne, in southwestern

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. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from

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and a

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in Creative Writing from

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.Carrie Oeding
Marshall University. Retrieved May 14, 2014. She has taught at Ohio University,

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, and is currently teaching at Bridgewater State University in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Oeding's first poetry collection, ''Our List of Solutions'' (2011), won the Lester M. Wolfson Prize. Her work features in the anthologies ''Best New Poets 2005'' and ''Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics'' (2014). In 2021,

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chose her book "If I Could Give You a Line" as their 2021 Akron Poetry Prize winner.2021 Akron Poetry Prize
Akron University. Retrieved October 7, 2021. Her work has also appeared in '' Colorado Review'', ''Laurel Review'' and ''

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'', and has been featured in '' PBS NewsHour'' and ''Verse Daily''.

Publications

* ''If I Could Give You at Line'' (2023). Akron, OH: University of Akron Press. * ''Our List of Solutions'' (2011). South Bend, IN: 42 Miles Press.

References

External links

"All My Friends' Barbecues Need Attending" (Poem)
, PBS NewsHour ArtBeat
"Work Harder" (Poem)
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