Carrie Conners is professor of English at LaGuardia Community College-CUNY. Her debut poetry collection, Luscious Struggle, was selected as a 2020 Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist, and her second poetry collection, Species of Least Concern, was named a finalist of the 2021 Main Street Rag Book Award. Her essays and poems have appeared in the Journal of Working-Class Studies, Bodega, Kestrel, Quiddity, RHINO, and Chautauqua, among other publications.
