Carolyn Creedon

Carolyn Creedon (born 1969) Newport News, Virginia is an American poet.

Life
She left college and worked as a waitress in San Francisco. She graduated from Smith College, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of Virginia with an M.F.A.

Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Massachusetts Review, Yale Review.

She wrote a letter in support of the Green Street Cafe.

She is married to Paul Andrews. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Awards

 * 2008 Study Abroad Programs in Arts and Writing Contest runner-up
 * 2005 Glascock poetry prize
 * Academy of American Poets prize

Works

 * Wet: Poems, Kent State University Press, 2012, ISBN 9781606351505

Anthologies

 * Mary Esselman, Elizabeth Velez, eds. You Drive Me Crazy: Love Poems for Real Life Hachette Digital, Inc., 2008, ISBN 9780446554831
 * "for the woman painter, because things grow"; "dear god i"; "bonepsalm", serve
 * "How to Be a Cowgirl in a Studio Apartment", Rattle #32, Winter 2009
 * Mary Esselman, Elizabeth Velez, eds. You Drive Me Crazy: Love Poems for Real Life Hachette Digital, Inc., 2008, ISBN 9780446554831
 * "for the woman painter, because things grow"; "dear god i"; "bonepsalm", serve
 * "How to Be a Cowgirl in a Studio Apartment", Rattle #32, Winter 2009
 * "How to Be a Cowgirl in a Studio Apartment", Rattle #32, Winter 2009