Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Milk and Filth (University of Arizona Press, 2013), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry and Be Recorder (Graywolf Press, 2019), which was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award in poetry, the PEN Open Book Award, the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She was awarded the Academy of American Poets Fellowship Prize in 2020. A 2019 Guggenheim fellow, she served as the publisher of Noemi Press for twenty years.