Carol Potter

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Carol Potter is an American poet who has won a number of awards. She teaches in the MFA program at Antioch University in Los Angeles.

[edit] Education

Pushcart XXVI, Poetry Magazine, Field, The Massachusetts Review, The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, The Women's Review of Books, Prairie Schooner, Maize, The Journal, and Arts & Letters.

1999 Cleveland State University Poetry Center Award
dA center for the Arts Poetry Award
Pushcart Prize
Tom McAfee Discovery Award from The Missouri Review (1986)
New Letters Award for Poetry (1990)
Three-time finalist for Massachusetts Cultural Council awards.
Residency and fellowship grants from MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Fundacion Valparaiso, Villa Montalvo, Centrum, and the Millay Colony.
Writer-in-Residence at Thurber House (2003)
Visiting Poet, MFA Program, Indiana University (2003-2004)
The Balcones Poetry Prize (2001)

Potter was born in Washington, Connecticut. She has two daughters, Jessame and Amy. She is divorced, and a lesbian.

Potter taught for 17 years at Holyoke Community College, but currently teaches in the MFA program at Antioch University in Los Angeles.

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