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Carrie Fountain

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Born

Mesilla, New Mexico, The United States

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http://www.carriefountain.com

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Young Adult, Poetry, Fiction

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Born and raised in Mesilla, New Mexico, Carrie Fountain’s debut collection of poems, Burn Lake, was a National Poetry Series winner and was published in 2010 by Penguin. Penguin published her second collection, Instant Winner, in 2014. Her poems have appeared in Tin House, Poetry, and The New Yorker, among others.

A former fellow at the James A. Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Fountain is writer-in-residence at St. Edward’s University in Austin, where she lives with her husband, playwright and novelist Kirk Lynn, and their two children.

Her first novel, I’m Not Missing, will be published in July of 2018 by Flatiron Books.

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Average rating: 3.87 · 1,863 ratings · 361 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	I'm Not Missing 3.72 avg rating — 1,156 ratings — published 2018 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Burn Lake 4.24 avg rating — 250 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life 3.98 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Instant Winner: Poems 4.10 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Poem Forest: Poet W. S. Merwin and the Palm Tree Forest He Grew from Scratch by Carrie Fountain (Goodreads Author), Chris Turnham (Illustrator) 4.12 avg rating — 101 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood by Emily Pérez (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Camille T. Dungy (Foreword), Diannely Antigua (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.58 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Read Women: An Anthology by Amanda Fuller (Editor), Carolann Madden (Editor), Carly Joy Miller (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature & Fine Arts (Summer/Fall 2017) by Luisa Muradyan-Tannahill (Editor), Carmen Maria Machado (Goodreads Author), Jamel Brinkley 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Breaking into Blossom: Poems with Extraordinary Endings by Luke Hankins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nomi Stone (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kaveh Akbar (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life: Includes The Life and Instant Winner 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“We each keep an untouched life beneath the one we've been given.”
― Carrie Fountain, Burn Lake

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“There is a holiness to exhaustion
is what I keep telling myself”
― Carrie Fountain, The Life

tags: exhaustion, poem, poetry, tiredness

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“I tried to find a place for this new pain, this brand-new baby grief, but there was nowhere to put it. I'd just have to carry it.”
― Carrie Fountain, I'm Not Missing

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