Carrie Jerrell was born in Petersburg, Indiana in 1976. She received her M.A. from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University in 2004 and is currently completing her Ph.D. in English as a Chancellor's Fellow at Texas Tech University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Subtropics. Image, Passages North, and Fringe, as well the anthologies Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets, Cadence of Hooves, and Best New Poets 2005. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she also serves as the poetry editor for Iron Horse Literary Review.
