Her latest academic post is at the New Mexico State University, as assistant professor in the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing and editing the university literary magazine, Puerto del Sol. She joined the creative writing program at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, gained a Master of Fine Arts degree and joined the teaching staff as a Teaching-Writing Fellow. Around the same time she produced three chapbooks” Glitch (2010), followed by Reason’s Monster and Can We Talk Here in 2011.
In 2010 she was awarded the American Book Award for her memoir, Bring Down the Little Birds. The following year her collection called Milk and Filth won the National Book Critics Circle Award (Poetry). She has won a number of awards for her poetry including the Juniper Prize for her third collection of poems, titled Goodbye, Flicker, published in 2012. Carmen Giménez Smith is an American poet and lyric essay writer. They currently live in Minneapolis, where they are pursuing a PhD in Cultural Studies (Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society) at the University of Minnesota. Roy holds degrees from the University of Minnesota, Dartmouth College, the University of Chicago, and the Honors College at Miami Dade College. In 2018, Roy was awarded a second GRPP Graduate Research Fellowship to travel to Honduras for research. In 2015, they were awarded a GRPP Graduate Research Fellowship to investigate trauma caused by violence in and migration from Honduras. Roy returned to Arizona as a Letras Latinas Scholar in 2018. Piper Center for Creative Writing and the MFA Program at Arizona State University. That same year, they were chosen to participate in the fourth Letras Latinas Writers Initiative gathering, sponsored by Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, in partnership with the Virginia G. In 2016, Roy was the recipient of a Scribe for Human Rights Fellowship, focusing on issues affecting migrant farm workers in Minnesota. Morales, Roy edited the anthology Pulse/Pulso: In Remembrance of Orlando, published by Damaged Goods Press.
After the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando, their poem “Restored Mural for Orlando” was turned into a chapbook with the help of poet and visual artist, D. Roy also participated in the first Poetry Incubator, sponsored by the Poetry Foundation and Crescendo Literary, and was invited to run a workshop during the Incubator’s second year. Their work has been included in the Best New Poets 2017 anthology, guest-edited by Natalie Diaz, and Best of the Net 2017, guest-edited by Eduardo C. They are also the recipient of a 2017 Minnesota State Arts Board Initiative grant and the 2016 Gesell Award for Excellence in Poetry. Raised in Miami, Florida, Roy is a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. Guzmán is a Honduran poet whose first collection is coming out from Graywolf Press in 2020.
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