About Carolyne Wright
Born 1949. Carolyne Wright is an American poet and writer.
Carolyne Wright (born in 1949, in Bellingham, Washington) is an American poet.
Life She studied at Seattle University, New York University, and graduated from Syracuse University with master's and doctoral degrees.
She has held visiting creative writing posts at Radcliffe College, Sweet Briar College, Emory University, University of Wyoming, University of Miami, Oklahoma State University, University of Central Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma, The College of Wooster, and Cleveland State University.
She is translation editor of Artful Dodge. Her work appeared in AGNI, Artful Dodge, Hotel Amerika, Hunger Mountain, Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, New England Review, New Orleans Review, North American Review, Poetry, Poets & Writers, Southern Review.
From 2004 to 2008, she served on the board of directors of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP). Since 2005, she teaches at the Whidbey Writers Workshop. In 2008, she is Thornton Poet in Residence at Lynchburg College, and Distinguished Northwest Poet at Seattle University. She lives in Seattle.
Awards Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center Vermont Studio Center Fellowship Yaddo Fellowship Fulbright Study Grant in Chile, during the presidency of Salvador Allende Indo-U.S. Subcommission and Fulbright Senior Research fellowships in Calcutta and Dhaka, Bangladesh Witter Bynner Foundation Grant, for A Bouquet of Roses on the Burning Ground NEA Fellowship in Translation, for A Bouquet of Roses on the Burning Ground Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College Fellowship, for A Bouquet of Roses on the Burning Ground Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, for A Change of Maps 2007 Independent Book Publishers Bronze Award for Poetry, for A Change of Maps Blue Lynx Prize Oklahoma Book Award in Poetry 2001 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. PEN/Jerard Fund Award and the Crossing Boundaries Award from International Quarterly for The Road to Isla Negra
Works Masquerade (Lost Horse Press, 2021) A Change of Maps (Lost Horse Press, 2006) (2nd edition 2005) (AWP Award Series) , an invitational chapbook
A Choice of Fidelities: Lectures and Readings from a Writer's Life (Ashland Poetry Press)
Anthologies
A Bouquet of Roses on the Burning Ground
Memoir The Road to Isla Negra
Translations "House", NABANEETA DEV SEN, Blackbird, Fall 2009 "Mysteries of Memory", NABANEETA DEV SEN, Blackbird, Fall 2009
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American poet
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Carolyne Wright was born on 2 July 1949 in Bellingham.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Carolyne Wright. https://biography.guide/carolyne-wright/
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