Carol Ciavonne’s poetry is lyrical and experimental, noted for vivid visual imagery. Her poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, Colorado Review, New American Writing, and How2, among other journals. She received the PSA Lyric Poetry Prize in 2004.
Her essays and reviews have appeared in Poetry Flash, Xantippe, and Pleiades. She was selected as a workshop participant at the New York Center for Book Arts (2007) and served as a writer in residence with the Pécs Writers Program (Pécs, Hungary, 2013). Her poetry collection Azimuth was forthcoming from Jaded Ibis in 2014. A selection of poems from Birdhouse Dialogues has been performed by the Imaginists theater collective.
Ciavonne holds a B.A. in Art and an M.A. in Poetics from New College of California. She lives in Santa Rosa, California, and has collaborated with Susana Amundaraín on several performed pieces, including Explosion of a Memory, Clepsydra, and the Birdhouse Dialogues.