Connie Post Biography

Connie Post is a San Francisco Bay Area Poet who has been writing and publishing for over twenty five years. Her work has received praise from Al Young, Ursula LeGuin, Ellen Bass, Maxine Chernoff and former US Poet Laureate Juan Herrera.

Her first full length collection “Floodwater” was the winner of the 2014 Lyrebird Award from Glass Lyre Press.

Her second full length collection “Prime Meridian” was just released in January of 2020. (Glass Lyre Press) Prime Meridian was a finalist in the 2020 Best Book Awards and the American Fiction Awards. (American Book Fest)

She has two chapbooks from Finishing Line Press “And When The Sun Drops” and “Trip Wires”. Her other books include “Waking State” (Small Poetry Press) and 2 other self-published books about parenting a son with autism

Connie Post’s poetry has been published widely, including the following publications

Apparatus Magazine, Adanna, The Aurorean , Arsenic Lobster, Blood Root Literary Magazine, Blue Fifth Review, Barnwood International, Big Muddy, Calyx, Comstock Review, Cold Mountain Review, Chiron Review, Chabot Literary Review, Crab Creek Review, Copperfield Review, Caesura, Clackamas Literary Review Carquinez Poetry Review, California Quarterly, Convergence, DMQ Review, Dogwood, Glint, Iodine Poetry Journal, I 70 Review, Italian Americana, Karamu, Kalliope, Kentucky Review, Lindenwood Review, Main Street Rag, Monterey Poetry Review, Mid West Poetry Review, Mobius, Oberon, Palooka, Pirene’s Fountain, Psychic Meatloaf, One (Jacar Press) Prick of the Spindle, Porter Gulch Review, Poemeleon, RiverSedge, Rise up Review, Slipstream, Song of the San Joaquin, Snail Mail Review, Spillway, Spoon River Poetry Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, The Toronto Quarterly, The Dirty Napkin, Timber Creek Review The Tule Review, The Pedestal Magazine, The Great American Poetry Show, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Up the Stair Case Literary Review, West Trestle Review, Untitled Country Review, White Pelican Review, Third Wednesday Two Bridges Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Verse Daily.

ANTHOLOGIES

Connie’s poems have been widely anthologized, as listed below
Alongside we Travel, Contemporary Poets on Autism 2019 ( NYQ books)
California Fire and Water – Edited by Molly Fisk
Collateral Damage – Pirene’s Fountain
Carrying the Branch – Pirene’s Fountain
Marin Poetry Center Anthology 2008, 2010, 2012
When the Muse Calls – Poems for the Creative Life (edited by Kathryn Ridall)
A Bird Black As the Sun: California Poets on Crows and Ravens – “80 Poets of the Golden State Hold Forth on the Theme of Crows and Ravens” Published by Green Poets Press

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION:

2018 Pirene’s Fountain Liakoura Award
2017 Prick of the Spindle Open Poetry Competition
2016 Crab Creek Review Poetry Award
2009 Caesura Poetry Award
The Dirty Napkin Cover Prize Volume 2.2 Spring 2009

Short Listed for the following:

Second Place in the 2011 Jack Kerouac Poetry Contest, Third place in the 2015 Jack Kerouac Poetry Contest
Finalist in the 2008 Lois Cranston Memorial Prize – Calyx
Finalist and or Special Merit Award Winner in the Comstock Review Muriel Craft Bailey Awards; 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2015
Third Prize in the Bloodroot Literary Awards 2013
Finalist, 2014 I 70 Review Gary Gildner Award

Connie’s poems have received multiple Pushcart and Best of the Net Nominations