Carr, Julie 1966–

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Carr, Julie 1966–

PERSONAL:

Born 1966. Education: Barnard College, B.A., 1988; New York University, M.F.A., 1997; University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., 2006.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Denver, CO. Office—Department of English, University of Colorado at Boulder, Hellems 101, 226 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0226. E-mail—Julie.Carr@colorado.edu.

CAREER:

Poet. University of Colorado, Boulder, assistant professor of English. Counterpath Press, copublisher.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Grolier Poetry Prize, 1999; University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series award, 2004.

WRITINGS:

Mead: An Epithalamion (poems), University of Georgia Press (Athens, GA), 2004.

Equivocal (poems), Alice James Books (Farmington, ME), 2007.

Contributor of poetry and prose to literary journals, including American Letters and Commentary, Bayou, Boston Review, Canary, Columbia Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Epoch, Five Fingers Review, LIT, New England Review, Parthenon West Review, POOL, Seneca Review, Tarpaulin Sky, Thuggery and Grace, 3rd Bed, TriQuarterly, 26, Verse, VOLT, and Xanthippe. Carr's poems have been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2007 and Not for Mothers Only, Fence Books, 2007.

SIDELIGHTS:

Julie Carr is an assistant professor of English, whose research and teaching interests include creative writing (poetry), Victorian literature, and poetics. She is a frequent contributor to literary magazines and the author of collections, including her second, Equivocal.

The volume was reviewed by Ilya Kaminsky in Library Journal. Kaminsky commented: ‘Carr's is dearly a voice of tender lyricism and much intimacy, yet it is never obscure.’ He concluded by calling the book ‘beautiful."