Meet poet Anders Carlson-Wee, the final judge of the 2019 Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest.
Anders Carlson-Wee is the author of THE LOW PASSIONS (W.W. Norton, 2019). His work has appeared in BuzzFeed, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry Daily, The Sun, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and many other places. His debut chapbook, Dynamite, won the Frost Place Chapbook Prize. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the McKnight Foundation, the Camargo Foundation, Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, he is the winner of the 2017 Poetry International Prize. His work has been translated into Chinese. Anders holds an MFA from Vanderbilt University and lives in Minneapolis.
Anders is the co-director of Riding the Highline, a short documentary film about poet brothers Kai and Anders hopping trains across the country.
Read his poems “Dynamite” and “Trophy” and his interview in Slice Magazine, and check out the new multimedia book Alphabeast–and then send us your own best multimedia work!