Carolyn Hembree

Area of Specialty: Poetry

MFA, University of Arizona

Carolyn Hembree has poems out or forthcoming in Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, jubilat, and Witness, among twenty-five other journals and anthologies. In 2012, Kore Press published her first collection, Skinny, which Jane Miller calls “an autobiographical tour de force” and Laura Mullen “a book to live in. ...”  D.A. Powell says, “I feel the thrill and terror of living inside each explosive line.” Hembree’s poetry has received three Pushcart Prize nominations, a PEN Writers Grant, a Southern Arts Federation Grant, and a Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship Award in Literature. She serves as Poetry Editor of Bayou Magazine and teaches writing at all levels. Before completing her MFA, she found employment as a cashier, house cleaner, cosmetics consultant, telecommunicator, actor, receptionist, paralegal, coder, and freelance writer. Carolyn grew up in Tennessee and Alabama.