Carol Guess
Carol Guess is an American poet and fiction writer. Her work emphasizes compression, musicality, and experimental structure.Biography
Guess attended Columbia University, majoring in English while studying ballet. She later earned graduate degrees in Creative Writing and English from Indiana University. Currently Professor of English at Western Washington University, she lives in Seattle. Guess identifies as queer and was a member of the Lesbian Avengers in the 1990s. Her books Homeschooling, Femme's Dictionary, and Gaslight were nominated for Lambda Literary Awards. Switch was a finalist for the American Library Association's Stonewall Book Award in 1999. In 2014 she was awarded the Philolexian Award for Distinguished Literary Achievement by the Philolexian Society of Columbia University.Selected publications
- Girl Zoo, FC2, 2019.
- True Ash, Black Lawrence Press, August 2018.
- Instructions for Staging, Broadstone Books, 2017.
- Human-Ghost Hybrid Project, Black Lawrence Press, 2017.
- The Reckless Remainder, Noctuary Press, 2016.
- Your Sick, Jellyfish Highway Press, 2016.
- With Animal, Black Lawrence Press, 2015.
- How to Feel Confident with Your Special Talents, Black Lawrence Press, 2014.
- X Marks The Dress: A Registry, Gold Wake Press, 2013.
- F IN
- Index Of Placebo Effects
- Doll Studies: Forensics
- Darling Endangered
- My Father In Water
- Homeschooling
- Love Is A Map I Must Not Set On Fire
- Tinderbox Lawn
- Femme's Dictionary
- Gaslight
- Switch
- Seeing Dell
