Carolyne Wright is an American poet and author. Currently She teaches comparative literature at a university.
Carolyne Wright has published more than eight books and chapbooks of poetry. Her most recent publication is the anthology Majestic Nights: Love Poems of Bengali Women.
Her other collection includes, Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire, which won the Blue Lynx Prize, the Oklahoma Book Award in Poetry, and an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Other books include Premonitions of an Uneasy Guest, Stealing the Children, Carolyne Wright: Greatest Hits 1975-2001; A Choice of Fidelities: Lectures and Readings from a Writer's Life; and poetry translated from Spanish and Bengali. Wright's honors include: the PEN/Jerard Fund Award, the Crossing Boundaries Award, Fulbright Senior Research fellowships, a Witter Bynner Foundation Grant and a NEA Grant in Translation, as well as a Fellowship from the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College.Carolyne Wright's A Change of Maps, was nominated for the LA Times Book Awards, and was a finalist for the Idaho Prize and Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America. It won the 2007 Independent Book Publishers Bronze Award for Poetry.
