Carolyn Hembree

Carolyn Hembree‘s third poetry collection, For Today, is forthcoming from LSU Press as part of their Barataria Series, edited by Ava Leavell Haymon. Carolyn is also the author of Skinny and Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague, winner of the Trio Award and the Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award. Her poems appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, Copper Nickel, Poetry Daily, The Southern Review, and other publications. She teaches at the University of New Orleans and serves as the poetry editor of Bayou Magazine.