Bio

Connie Post is a San Francisco Bay Area Poet who has been writing and publishing for over thirty years. Her work has received praise from Al Young, Ursula LeGuin, Ellen Bass, Maxine Chernoff, Dean Rader, Diane Suess, 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 released in January of 2020. (Glass Lyre Press) Prime Meridian was a finalist in the 2020 Best Book Awards, 2021 International Book Awards and the 2020 American Fiction Awards. (American Book Fest). Prime Meridian was selected as a distinguished favorite in the 2022 Independent Press Awards.
Her most recent full length collection “Between Twilight” was published by New York Quarterly books in 2023.  

She has three chapbooks. The first two are from Finishing Line Press “And When The Sun Drops” and “Trip Wires”.  Her most recent chapbook, “Broken Metronome” was published by Glass Lyre Press in 2023. It was named a distinguished favorite in the NYC Big Book Awards and was the winner of the 2023 American Fiction Awards (American Book Fest) for a poetry chapbook.

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

American Journal of Poetry, 2river, Apparatus Magazine, Adanna, The Aurorean , Arsenic Lobster, About Place, The Banyan Review, Blood Root Literary Magazine, Blue Fifth Review, Barnwood International, Big Muddy, Boston Literary Magazine, 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, Cultural Weekly, DMQ Review, Dogwood, Glint, Iodine Poetry Journal, I 70 Review, Italian Americana, , Kalliope, Kentucky Review, Lindenwood Review, Main Street Rag, Monterey Poetry Review, Mid West Poetry Review, Mobius, Oberon, Mom Egg Review, Ovenbird Poetry Review, Palooka, Pirene’s Fountain, One (Jacar Press) Prick of the Spindle, Porter Gulch Review, Poemeleon, RiverSedge, Rise up Review, Slipstream, The Slippery Elm, Spillway, SWWIM, Spoon River Poetry Review, Split Rock Review, The Toronto Quarterly, The Dirty Napkin, 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)

Aeolian Harp Series Volume 7 – Glass Lyre Press – edited by Megan Merchant

California Fire and Water – Edited by Molly Fisk

Collateral Damage – Pirene’s Fountain

Carrying the Branch – Pirene’s Fountain

Paws Healing the Earth- Edited by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis

Truth to Power – Cutthroat -A journal of the Arts

Poets with Masks on – A Pandemic Anthology 2022 - edited by Melanie Simms

Marin Poetry Center Anthology 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2020

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, 2021

Third Prize in the Bloodroot Literary Awards 2013

Finalist, 2014 I 70 Review Gary Gildner Award

Finalist in the 2020 and 2022 Cutthroat Magazine Joy Harjo Poetry Contest

Finalist in the 2021 Sweet Lit Contest

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