Carol Louise Munn lives and writes in Houston, Texas. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan where she received an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Michael R. Gutterman Award for Poetry, the Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship, as well as the Colby Fellowship. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The GSU Review (Georgia State University), So to Speak (George Mason University), Fugue (University of Idaho), WomenArts Quarterly Journal, Midwest Quarterly, and other journals. Her work has been anthologized in A Bird in the Hand: Risk or Flight, the Middle School literature textbook Stories from Where We Live: The Gulf Coast and also in Houston Poetry Fest Anthologies 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, and 2011. She was a finalist in the Atlanta Review Poetry Competition, the Artlines Ekphrastic Poetry Competition in conjunction with the MFAH, the Southern Writers Symposium, the Dallas Poets Community International Poetry Contest, the Marlboro Review poetry contest, the San Francisco International Dancing Poetry Contest, and the Barbara Bradley Award, sponsored by the New England Poetry Club. Her flash-prose memoir “Roosters” was a finalist in the Writer’s Advice Fourth Annual Flash Prose Contest. She has given many public poetry readings and radio interviews in Houston and throughout the country. Most recently, her poem “What Happened Here” was accepted by the literary journal titled Months to Years and another poem “Lust Works” was a finalist in the Princemere Poetry Prize, a national competition.