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Dr. Carrie Jerrell  
Dr. Carrie Jerrell
Assistant Professor of English
 
Joined MSU in 2009
 
Education
 
Ph.D., English-Creative Writing, Texas Tech University, 2009

M.A., Creative Writing, Johns Hopkins University, 2004

B.S., Secondary English Education, University of Evansville, 1999
 
 
Areas of Interest
 
Creative Writing - Poetry
Creative Writing - Nonfiction
Modern & Contemporary Poetry
American Literature
 
 
Recent Works
 
After the Revival, a collection of poems (Winner, Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize 2008; available November 2009 from Waywiser Press)

Featured Poet, From the Fishouse, May 2009: http://www.fishousepoems.org/archives/carrie_jerrell/index.shtml

Featured Interview, How a Poem Happens, August 2009: http://howapoemhappens.blogspot.com/2009/08/carrie-jerrell.html

"The Fire Tower" and "In an Indiana County Thick with Copperheads," IMAGE, Issue 63

"Big Daddy" and "Nocturne," The Great American Poetry Show, Vol. 2, forthcoming spring 2010

"The Poet Speaks to the Clip Point Knife on Her Windowsill" and "The Poet Speaks to the Memory Stalking Her," Yalobusha Review, forthcoming spring 2010
 
 
  Carrie Jerrell
7C-17 Faculty Hall
Murray State University
Murray, Kentucky 42071

Phone: 270.809.4723
Fax: 270.809.4545
         
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