Claudia Kreuzig Grinnell is a German-American poet writing in English.

Biography

Claudia Kreuzig Grinnell was born and raised in

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

. She now teaches at the

University of Louisiana at Monroe The University of Louisiana Monroe (ULM) is a public university in Monroe, Louisiana. It is part of the University of Louisiana System. History ULM opened in 1931 as Ouachita Parish Junior College. Three years later it became the Northeast Cen ...

. Her

poem Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in ...

s have appeared in publications such as ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''New Orleans Review'', ''Review Americana'', ''Triplopia'', ''Logos'', ''Minneota Review'', ''Diner'', ''Urban Spaghetti'', ''Fine Madness'', ''Greensboro Review'' and others. Her first full-length book of

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

, ''Conditions Horizontal'', was published by Missing Consonant Press in the fall of 2001. Grinnell was the recipient of the 2000 Southern Women Writers Emerging Poets Award. In 2003, she was a finalist in the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize Competition, and in 2005, she received the Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship in poetry. Her second book of poems is ''All Roads...but This One''.

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people German expatriates in the United States German women poets University of Louisiana at Monroe faculty {{Germany-poet-stub