Camille Rankine

Camille Rankine is an American poet. She was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, earned a BA at Harvard University and an MFA at Columbia University[1].

Rankine is the author of the chapbook, Slow Dance with Trip Wire, selected by Cornelius Eady for the Poetry Society of America's 2010 New York Chapbook Fellowship.[2] Her debut full-length collection, Incorrect Merciful Impulses, was released by Copper Canyon Press in 2016.[3]

She was formerly assistant director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Manhattanville College and lives in New York City.

Rankine has won literary prizes including the "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Prize, a MacDowell Colony fellowship, and an honorary Cave Canem Foundation fellowship.[4]

Bibliography
  • Incorrect Merciful Impulses, Copper Canyon Press, 2016
  • Slow Dance with Trip Wire, 2011 (chapbook)
  • The Free World, Poetry Society of America[5]

References
  1. Poets, Academy of American. "About Camille Rankine | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2019-07-08.
  2. aapone (4 February 2014). "Emerging Poet: Camille Rankine". Emerging Poet: Camille Rankine. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
  3. "Copper Canyon Press: Incorrect Merciful Impulses, poetry by Camille Rankine". www.coppercanyonpress.org. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
  4. Camille Rankine, Poetry Foundation, retrieved 2018-02-24
  5. "Camille Rankine - Poetry Society of America". www.poetrysociety.org. Retrieved 2019-07-08.
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