Originally from Normal, Illinois, Carrie Etter has lived in England since 2001 and taught at Bath Spa University since 2004, where she is Reader in Creative Writing. She has published four collections: The Tethers (Seren, 2009), winner of the London New Poetry Prize; Divining for Starters (Shearsman, 2011); Imagined Sons (Seren, 2014), shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry by the Poetry Society; and The Weather in Normal (UK: Seren; US: Station Hillk 2018), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Individual poems have appeared in Boston Review, The Iowa Review, The New Republic, The New Statesman, PN Review, Poetry Review, and The Times Literary Supplement.