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Carolyn Guinzio

Born: 1964 in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: I was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. I attended Columbia College in Chicago. My first book, ''West Pullman'', winner of the Bordighera Poetry Prize, revolves around the titular far south side neighborhood.

Biography: Guinzio received a B.A. from Columbia College and an MFA from the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College. She is the author of the books ''West Pullman'', ''Quarry'' and ''Spoke & Dark'' along with the chapbooks ''Untitled Wave'' and ''a liss''. Her work has also appeared in ''Colorado Review'', ''Denver Quarterly'', ''Indiana Review'', ''New American Writing'', ''Smartish Pace'', ''Willow Springs'' and many other journals. Guinzio has received awards from the arts councils of Kentucky and Illinois and the Fund for Poetry. Currently, she is the poetry editor at ''Yew: A Journal of Innovative Writing & Images by Women''. She lives with her husband, the poet Davis McCombs in Fayetteville, AR.


Awards:
  • -- 2004 Bordighera Poetry Prize for ''West Pullman''
  • -- A Room of Her Own/To The Lighthouse Prize for ''Spoke & Dark''

Primary Literary Genre(s): Poetry

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: cguinzio@gmail.com
Carolyn Guinzio on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=carolyn+guinzio


Selected Titles

Quarry
ISBN: 9781602350854 OCLC: 257556320

Parlor Press, West Lafayette, Ind. : ©2008.

Spoke & dark :
ISBN: 1597092290 OCLC: 835771342

Red Hen Press, Pasadena, CA : 2012.

  Spoke.
ISBN: 0919197159 OCLC: 805619

[Fiddlehead Poetry Books], [Fredericton, N.B.], [1972]

West Pullman :
ISBN: 1884419704 OCLC: 61200742

Bordighera Press, Boca Raton, Fla. : ©2005.

 

 

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