Carolyn Forché, poet, editor, translator, and activist, teaches writing at George Mason University in Virginia. Born in Detroit, she graduated with a B.A. in 1972 from Justin Morrill College, a residential college at MSU, devoted to the liberal arts.
Her first volume of poetry, Gathering the Tribes (1976), won her the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. In 1982 she received the Lamont Award of the Academy of American Poets for her second collection, The Country Between Us, now in its fifteenth printing. Her most recent book of poetry is Angel of History (1994). She was the editor of the highly acclaimed Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness (1993). Her translations of the poet Claribel Alegria include Flowers from the Volcano (1982) and Sorrow: Poems (1999).
Ms. Forché received a Lannon Literary Award (1990) as a writer of literary excellence "whose work promotes a truer understanding of contemporary life." In particular, she was cited for her "concern with the freedom of the individual spirit" and her "ability to transmute her personal experience into sharply defined images that speak to the heart of everyman."
For more information on Carolyn Forché, please go to her web site: http://mason.gmu.edu/~cforchem/
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