Her memoir What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance (Penguin Press/Penguin Random House, 2019) won the Juan E. She studied at Justin Morrill College and Michigan State University, and earned an MFA from Bowling Green State University and a PhD from Newcastle University in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom.Ī poet, memoirist, translator, and editor, Forché’s books of poetry include In the Lateness of the World (Penguin, 2020), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a winner of the American Book Award Blue Hour (HarperCollins, 2003), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award The Angel of History (HarperCollins, 1994), which received the Los Angeles Times Book Award The Country Between Us (HarperCollins, 1982), which received the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award and was the Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets and Gathering the Tribes (Yale University Press, 1976), which was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets by Stanley Kunitz. On April 28, 1950, Carolyn Forché was born in Detroit.
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