Carrie Conners

Carrie Conners, originally from Moundsville, West Virginia, lives in Queens, New York, and is an English professor at LaGuardia Community College–CUNY. Her first poetry collection, Luscious Struggle (BrickHouse Books, 2019), was a 2020 Paterson Poetry Prize finalist. Her second collection, Species of Least Concern, was a finalist for the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award (Main Street Rag, 2022). Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Bodega, Kestrel, Split Rock Review, RHINO, and The Monarch Review, among others. She is also the author of the book Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late Twentieth-Century American Poetry (University Press of Mississippi, 2022).