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Poet, Professor of English
Office: Hagg Sauer 306
Phone: (218) 755 - 2029
email: cschlemper@bemidjistate.edu
crussell@bemidjistate.edu
M.A. English Literature
: University of Montana
M.F.A. Poetry :
University of Montana
Ph.D. English: Creative Writing, Form and Theory, and 20th Century Literature:
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
CarolAnn Russell has
published four full-length books of poetry: The
Red Envelope (University Presses of Florida, 1985), Feast
(Loonfeather Press, Minnesota 1993) and Silver
Dollar (West End Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1995), and Gypsy Taxi (Backwaters Press, Omaha, NE).
In addition, she has
published three limited editions of poetry: Italia: Passeggiata (Quiet Crow Press, Minnesota 2000); Without
Reservation (1996); The Tao of Woman (1990). Russell has also won many awards and grants for her poetry
from: the Academy of American Poets, Ragdale Foundation, the Poetry
Society of America, the Jerome Foundation, the Minnesota
State Arts Board, and the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference. She was Poet-in-Residence at Villa Vergiliana in Cumae, Italy (2005), and was a resident poet at the American Academy in Rome, Italy (1997, 2000) and also at the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne (1997). She was elected a member of P.E.N. New York City in 1993.
She lives in northern
Minnesota amongst the red pines of Bemidji Township with her husband, Michael Schlemper, writer and artist, their two sons Josef
and Zoey, and two cats. In 1999, Saint Cloud State University awarded her its Distinguished Alumni Award. Russell is Professor of Creative Writing
in the Department of English at Bemidji State
University where she has taught poetry writing, multicultural literature, and women's studies since 1988.
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