Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of three collections of poetry, Odalisque in Pieces (University of Arizona Press, 2009), The City She Was (Center for Literary Publishing, 2011)and Goodbye, Flicker (University of Massachusetts Press, 2012) and a memoir, Bring Down the Little Birds (University of Arizona Press, 2010). She is the recipient of a Juniper Prize for poetry and a fellowship from the Howard Foundation for creative nonfiction. She is the publisher of Noemi Press, the editor-in-chief of Puerto del Sol, and an assistant professor in the MFA program in creative writing at New Mexico State University.