Carrie Green
Literary Artist
2025 KFW Writers Prize | (Lexington) $1,000 | Carrie Green is the author of Studies of Familiar Birds: Poems (Able Muse Press, 2020) and the forthcoming Millie MacAdoo Takes Note (Able Muse Press, 2026/27). She is the winner of the 2025 Brink Literary Journal Award for Hybrid Writing. Carrie earned her MFA at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and has received grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, the Kentucky Arts Council, and the Louisiana Division of the Arts. Her poems and visual poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Life in Poetry, Verse Daily, Salvation South, Terrain, Tupelo Quarterly, Bellingham Review, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. She hosts the Prompt to Page writing podcast, a partnership between the Jessamine County Public Library and the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning.
PREVIOUS GRANTS
2022 Artist Enrichment Grant | (Lexington) $3,964 to complete a manuscript of visual poems based on 1937’s “The New Etiquette: The Modern Code of Social Behavior” by Margery Wilson. Using techniques of erasure, embroidery, and collage, the project will allow her to expand her artistic skills while conversing with the work of a Kentucky-born pioneering actor and filmmaker who was constrained by the gender expectations of her time.