Carol Potter

Carol Potter is the 2015 winner of the FIELD Poetry Prize from Oberlin College Press for her book, Some Slow Bees. Her fourth book of poems, Otherwise Obedient (Red Hen Press, 2008) was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in GLBT poetry. Her book of poems Short History of Pets won the 1999 Cleveland State Poetry Center award and the Balcones Award. Previous books are Upside Down in the Dark, 1995, and Before We Were Born, 1990—both from Alice James Books. Potter’s poems have appeared in Field, The Iowa Review, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Journal, Prairie Schooner, The Women’s Review of Books and many other journals and anthologies. Potter was awarded a Pushcart Prize in 2002 for her poem Three Crows. Other honors include residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Fundación Valparaíso, Millay, Centrum, and Cummington Community of the Arts. Besides teaching for Antioch since 2002, Potter has taught at Indiana University, Redlands University, Los Angeles Community College, Santa Monica College, Holyoke Community College, Community College of Vermont, and the UCLA Writer’s Extension. After five years in California, including living part-time on a boat in Marina del Rey, Potter returned to New England. Most recent publications include poems in Green Mountains Review, Ekphrasis, and Sinister Wisdom. She has poems forthcoming in Hotel Amerika, The Kenyon Review, River Styx, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and The Massachusetts Review. She was the winner of the 2015 Ekphrasis prize for poetry.