Carrie Etter
Encyclopedia
Life
Originally from Normal, IllinoisNormal, Illinois
Normal is an incorporated town in McLean County, Illinois, United States. It had a population of 52,497 as of the 2010 census. Normal is the smaller of two principal municipalities of the Bloomington-Normal metropolitan area...
, she moved to Southern California
California
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at the age of 19, and on to London
London
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in 2001.
Etter holds a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...
, and an MA and PhD from the University of California, Irvine
University of California, Irvine
The University of California, Irvine , founded in 1965, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, located in Irvine, California, USA...
. She was a visiting lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire
University of Hertfordshire
The University of Hertfordshire is a new university based largely in Hatfield, in the county of Hertfordshire, England, from which the university takes its name. It has more than 27,500 students, over 2500 staff, with a turnover of over £181m...
for 2003–2004, teaching short-story writing and literature.
She is currently an Associate Lecturer at Bath Spa University
Bath Spa University
Bath Spa University is a university based in, and around, Bath, England. The institution was previously known as Bath College of Higher Education, and later Bath Spa University College...
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In the UK, her poems have appeared in Metre, Poetry Wales, Poetry Review, Reactions, Thumbscrew, The Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere, while in the US her poems have appeared in Aufgabe, Barrow Street, Columbia, Meridian, The New Republic, Seneca Review, and many other journals. She is also an essayist and a critic. Her reviews of contemporary poetry have appeared in The Liberal, New Welsh Review, Poetry Matters, The Times Literary Supplement, and Verse. Etter has published essays on W.B. Yeats and Sherman Alexie in W.B. Yeats and Post-Colonialism and Telling the Stories: Essays on American Indian Literatures and Cultures, respectively.
She won a 2010 London Awards for Art and Performance
London Awards for Art and Performance
The London Awards for Art and Performance is awarded in 11 different art categories, by the London Festival Fringe.It is awarded each year, at a central London venue, and is presented to artists and performers who have made an outstanding contribution to their art form.-Awards:- External links :* **...
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Poetry collections
- Say Mercy ed. by Steve BoyettSteve BoyettSteven R. Boyett, also known as DJ Steve Boyett, is a writer and disc jockey based in Northern California.-Early work:Boyett sold his first novel, Ariel, at the age of 21, and went on to publish The Architect of Sleep, The Gnole , Elegy Beach , as well as numerous short stories and novellas...
, Sneaker Press, 1992, ISBN 9781882813018 - Subterfuge of the Unrequitable Poets & Poets Press, 1998, ISBN 9780937013793
- Yet Leafe Press, 2008, ISBN 9780953540198
- The Tethers, Seren Books, 2009, ISBN 9781854114921
- The Son Oystercatcher Press, 2009, ISBN 9781905885244
- Divining for Starters Shearsman Books, 2011, ISBN 9781848611504
Anthologies
- Carrie Etter (ed) Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets, Shearsman Books, 2010, ISBN 9781848610996