Carrie Conners

Carrie Conners, originally from West Virginia, lives in Queens, NY and teaches at LaGuardia Community College-CUNY. Her first poetry collection, Luscious Struggle (BrickHouse Books, 2019), was a 2020 Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist. Species of Least Concern, her second collection, was published by Main Street Rag in 2022. Her poetry has appeared in Bodega, Kestrel, Split Rock Review, RHINO, and Menacing Hedge, among others. She is also the author of the book, Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late Twentieth- Century American Poetry (University Press of Mississippi, 2022).