{{short description|American poet}} {{Infobox person | name = Carrie Fountain | image = Carrie Fountain 2022 Texas Book Festival.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Fountain at the 2022 Texas Book Festival. | other_names = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | nationality = | citizenship = | education = New Mexico State University (BA) <br>University of Texas at Austin (MFA) | occupation = Poet, novelist | employer = | known_for = | children = | parents = }} '''Carrie Fountain''' is an American poet and writer of young adult fiction. She served as 2019 Poet Laureate of Texas.
She is from Las Cruces, New Mexico. She was a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/C/Carrie-Fountain.html |title=AGNI Online: Author Carrie Fountain |access-date=2010-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100823113312/http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/C/Carrie-Fountain.html |archive-date=2010-08-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and received ''Swink Magazine'''s Award for Emerging Writers and the Marlboro Poetry Prize. She wrote for ''The Texas Observer'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.texasobserver.org/author_bib.php?aid%3D175 |title=The Texas Observer > Carrie Fountain's Articles |accessdate=2010-05-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100628095002/http://www.texasobserver.org/author_bib.php?aid=175 |archivedate=2010-06-28 }}</ref> and was poetry columnist for the ''Austin American-Statesman''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/books/entries/2009/09/16/austin_winners.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607062612/http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/books/entries/2009/09/16/austin_winners.html |archive-date=2011-06-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Her work has appeared in ''Cimarron Review, Black Warrior Review, 32 Poems,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.32poems.com/issues/|title=Issues | 32 Poems Magazine}}</ref> and Missouri Review Online''. She lives in Austin, Texas and teaches at St. Edward's University.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://think.stedwards.edu/humanities/facultystaff |title=Humanities Faculty & Staff | School of Humanities |access-date=2011-07-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111026233830/http://think.stedwards.edu/humanities/facultystaff |archive-date=2011-10-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
She was named the 2019 Poet Laureate of Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2019-04-05/author-poet-and-podcast-host-carrie-fountain-isnt-trying-to-trick-you/ |title=Author, Poet, and Podcast Host Carrie Fountain Isn't Trying to Trick You |publisher=The Austin Chronicle |date=5 April 2019}}</ref>
==Awards== *2009 National Poetry Series, for ''Burn Lake''
==Works== *[http://webdelsol.com/Marlboro_Review/fountainpoem.html "Purple Heart"], ''Marlboro Review'' *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090816103933/http://www.swinkmag.com/fountain.html "Burn Lake 2"], ''Swink'', 2007 *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100823113328/http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/online/2010/fountain-father.html "Father and Son at the Mesilla Valley Drive-thru Bank"], ''AGNI'' *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100823113343/http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/online/2010/fountain-theory.html "Theory of Perfection"], ''AGNI'' *[https://poetryforchildren.blogspot.com/2010/04/poetry-tag-carrie-fountain-is-it.html "El Camino Real 3 "], ''Poetry for Children'' *[https://poets.org/poem/will-you] "Will You" *''Burn Lake.'' Penguin Group USA, 2010, {{ISBN|978-0-14-311771-1}} *''Instant Winner: Poems.'' Penguin Group USA, 2014, {{ISBN|978-0143126638}} *''I'm Not Missing: A Novel.'' Flatiron Books, New York, 2018, {{ISBN|978-1250132512}}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{commonscat|Carrie Fountain}} *[http://communitymatters.biz/2009/09/19/carrie-fountains-burn-lake/ "Carrie Fountain’s, Burn Lake"], September 19, 2009
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