Carmen Giménez Smith

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Carmen Giménez Smith’s work dissects the female body and society’s responses to it over centuries in language that can be both playful and serious. Her collections include Milk and Filth; Goodbye, Flicker, winner of the Juniper Prize, and, most recently, Cruel Futures. Her memoir, Bring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering, Art, Work, and Everything Else, received an American Book Award. Smith will perform a reading in response to exhibition Zilia Sánchez: Soy Isla (I Am an Island).