Detail of "The Bloom" by J.V. Foerster

Artwork: “The Bloom” by J.V. Foerster

Carol Louise Munn

Poet · Teacher · Houston, Texas

Portrait photograph of poet Carol Louise Munn

Photo: Emma Brockway

About the Author

Carol Louise Munn, a native Texan, was born in Fort Worth and lives in Houston. In addition to teaching English and Creative Writing for 34 years both in the U.S. and in Spain, she earned her MFA at the University of Michigan where she was awarded two fellowships and was also a recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize. A nominee for the Pushcart Prize, she was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant and was selected as a juried poet ten times for the Houston Poetry Fest. Her poems have appeared in many journals including Poetry, Fugue, WomenArts Quarterly Journal, Slab, Poetry Quarterly, Ampersand Review, The Chaffin Journal, Equinox, Comstock Review, Lascaux Review, and The Midwest Quarterly Review. Her poems have been anthologized in Untameable City; Enchantment of the Ordinary; Stories from Where We Live: The Gulf Coast; and The Senior Class. Her chapbook, Bed of Our Making, is forthcoming from Mutabilis Press.

Spirits and Gnats

Debut collection · Forthcoming from Kelsay Books

The painting The Bloom by J.V. Foerster — cover art for Spirits and Gnats
“The Bloom” by J.V. Foerster

“Like an exquisitely honed memoir, these moving poems will engage and enchant you.”

—Alice Fulton

Her chapbook, Bed of Our Making, is forthcoming from Mutabilis Press.