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Carol Potter is an Affiliate Faculty member in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Antioch University. A distinguished poet, her work has appeared in prestigious journals such as The Kenyon Review, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily. Potter has received numerous accolades, including the 2021 Pacific Coast Series Award and multiple Massachusetts Council of the Arts Awards.
- Educational Background: MFA in Poetry and BA in English/Journalism with a Women’s Studies certificate, both from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Her research and teaching interests focus on poetry, creative writing, GLBT literature, and women’s studies. She emphasizes the balance between poetic craft and raw emotional authenticity in her pedagogy.
- Scientific Awards & Honors:
- 2021 Pacific Coast Series Award (Beyond Baroque Books)
- 2019 Vermont Council of Arts grant
- 2001 Pushcart Prize
- 2015 Ekphrasis Poetry Award
- 2015 Northampton Arts Biennial Poetry Contest
- The New Letters Award for Poetry (1990)
- Tom McAfee Discovery Award (The Missouri Review)
- Three Massachusetts Council of the Arts Awards
- 2004 Center for the Arts Poetry Award
- Residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, Millay Colony for the Arts, and others
Potter’s full-length poetry collections include What Happens Next is Anyone’s Guess (2021 Pacific Coast Series Award), Some Slow Bees (2014 Field Poetry Prize winner), Otherwise Obedient (2007 Lambda LGBT Awards finalist), and Short History of Pets (1999 Cleveland State Poetry Center Award winner). She has also been featured in anthologies like The Pushcart Prize XXVI and The Road Taken (contemporary Vermont poets anthology).
