Carmen Giménez

Carmen Giménez
Carmen Giménez at Virginia Tech
Born (1971-02-20) February 20, 1971
Occupation
  • Poet
  • memoirist
  • editor
  • publisher
LanguageEnglish
Alma mater
Genre
  • Poetry
  • memoir
Notable works
  • Be Recorder
  • Bring Down the Little Birds
Notable awards
Website
carmengimenez.net

Carmen Giménez, formerly known as Carmen Giménez Smith, is an American poet, memoirist, editor, and publisher. She is the director and publisher of Graywolf Press, where she serves as executive director, and a former publisher of Noemi Press, which she led for twenty years. Her poetry collection Be Recorder was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019 and the Academy of American Poets Fellowship in 2020.