Carmen Giménez
Carmen Giménez is Publisher and Director of Graywolf Press and author of six collections of poetry, including Be Recorder, which was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Biography
Giménez became Publisher and Director of Graywolf Press in August 2022. She was previously the founder and publisher of Noemi Press and a professor of English at Virginia Tech. A queer Latinx poet, she is the author of six collections of poetry, including Be Recorder, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry; and Milk and Filth, a finalist for the NBCC Award in Poetry. She has been awarded fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Howard Foundation, and the Hermitage Foundation. Giménez taught in the Bennington Writing Seminars January 2018-May 2025.