Carmen Giménez Smith

Giménez earned a Bachelor of Arts from San José State University and a Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. She was recently a professor in English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and, prior to that, New Mexico State University. She teaches in Bennington College's Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing. Giménez is the founder and publisher of Noemi Press, and she is a founding fellow and co-director of CantoMundo. In the fall of 2017, Giménez became editor of The Nation's Poetry Section, alongside Stephanie Burt. In summer of 2022, Giménez became the Executive Director and Publisher of Graywolf Press.

In 2009, Giménez was named to Poetry Society of America's biennial New American Poets Series. In 2011, she was named a Howard Foundation Fellow in Creative Nonfiction; her memoir, Bring Down the Little Birds, received an American Book Award; and her third collection of poems, Goodbye, Flicker, was awarded the Juniper Prize for Poetry. Milk and Filth was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Her 2019 poetry collection Be Recorder was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry, the PEN/Open Book Award, the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Carmen Giménez (born February 20, 1971 in New York City) is an American poet, writer, and editor.