Anders Carlson-Wee

Anders Carlson-Wee is an American poet. His first collection, The Low Passions, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2019.[1] Norton will publish his second collection, Disease of Kings, in 2023.[2][3]

Anders Carlson-Wee
Carlson-Wee Reading at The Frost Place in Franconia, NH in 2015.
Carlson-Wee Reading at The Frost Place in Franconia, NH in 2015.
Born (1985-05-18) May 18, 1985
Minneapolis, Minnesota
EducationFairhaven College
Vanderbilt University
GenrePoetry

Personal life

Carlson-Wee was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Lutheran pastor parents, and grew up in Moorhead, Minnesota.[4] He is a former professional rollerblader,[5] and has written extensively about hopping freight trains and traveling the country.[6] He has dyslexia.[7]

He has two brothers: poet and filmmaker Kai Carlson-Wee and entrepreneur Olaf Carlson-Wee.

Career

Carlson-Wee studied at Fairhaven College of Western Washington University before earning his MFA at Vanderbilt University.[8][9]

His poems have been published in various journals and magazines including The Paris Review, Harvard Review, BuzzFeed, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and Virginia Quarterly Review.

Anders is co-director of the poetry film Riding the Highline, which has won numerous prizes at film festivals.[10]

Awards and fellowships

Publications
  • Disease of Kings, W. W. Norton & Company, 2023
  • The Low Passions, W. W. Norton & Company, 2019
  • Two Headed Boy with Kai Carlson-Wee, Organic Weapon Arts, 2016
  • Mercy Songs with Kai Carlson-Wee, Diode Editions, 2016
  • Dynamite, Bull City Press, 2015

References
  1. "The Low Passions". wwnorton.com. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  2. "Anders Carlson-Wee". Poets & Writers. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  3. "Anders Carlson-Wee". Anders Carlson-Wee. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  4. "Midwestern Gothic – A Literary Journal » Blog Archive » Interview: Anders and Kai Carlson-Wee". Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  5. "Anders Carlson-Wee". www.arts.gov. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  6. "Slice Magazine | An Interview with Anders Carlson-Wee, by Christopher Locke". Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  7. "The Eye for True". The Rupture. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  8. Carlson-Wee, Anders (2015-06-24). "Anders Carlson-Wee". www.narrativemagazine.com. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  9. "National Endowment for the Arts awards fellowship to Vanderbilt MFA student". Vanderbilt University. December 5, 2014. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  10. Carlson-Wee, Kai (2015-04-07), Riding the Highline, retrieved 2023-01-19
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