Carmen Giménez

Poetry

Carmen Giménez is Publisher and Director of Graywolf Press and author of six collections of poetry, including Be Recorder, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. 

writing@bennington.edu

Biography

Carmen Giménez became Publisher and Director of Graywolf Press in August 2022. She was previously the founder and publisher of Noemi Press and a professor of English at Virginia Tech. A queer Latinx poet, she is the author of six collections of poetry, including Be Recorder, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry; and Milk and Filth, a finalist for the NBCC Award in Poetry. She has been awarded fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Howard Foundation, and the Hermitage Foundation.