Carrie Chappell

Carrie Chappell is a poet, essayist, translator, researcher, and educator. She is the author of Loving Tallulah Bankhead (Paris Heretics, 2022) and Quarantine Daybook (Bottlecap Press, 2021). Her recent poetry has been included in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume X: Alabama (TRP: The University Press of SHSU 2023); Iron Horse Literary Review; Juke Joint, Nashville Review, Redivider, and SWIMM. Her lyric and book essays have been published in DIAGRAM, Fanzine, New Delta Review, The Iowa Review, The Rumpus, The Rupture, and Xavier Review. With Amanda Murphy, she co-translated Cassandra at point-blank range by Sandra Moussempès (Diálogos 2025).

Over the last twelve years, Carrie has taught literature, literary translation, creative writing, American Civilization, and rhetoric and composition for institutions such as University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, CY Cergy Paris University, University Sorbonne-Nouvelle, University Paris Dauphine-PSL, and Oxbridge Academic Programs.

She has been a featured performer and presenter in many venues and festivals, such as Maison de la poésie, New Orleans Poetry Festival, Ivy Writers Paris, Colette & Co. Antiquariaat in The Hague, VoidVoices Festival in Rotterdam, ACU in Utrecht, Shelter in Magic Reading Series, Le Printemps des poètes, Espace Canopy, Lit Balm, SpokenWord Paris, and Paris Lit Up.

Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, Carrie holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans. In 2015, she founded Verse of April, the digital anthology of homage to the poets, and now runs its companion reading series, Mnemosynes. She also writes Spiritual Material: Musings from My Second-Hand, Parisian Wardrobe on Substack. Since 2017, Carrie has been researching and experimenting with translating the poetic novels of Hélène Bessette. She is currently completing her dissertation on Bessette’s oeuvre as a doctoral candidate in French Literature at CY Cergy Paris University. In 2023, Carrie joined the Foreign Language Department at Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM) as an English instructor. She lives in Paris, France.

Interviews

• PART II of Carrie Chappell on her personal translation of Garance Rose by Hélène Bessette with Elliott Bartlett of This Is Not a Poem on World Radio Paris

• PART I of Carrie Chappell on her personal translation of Garance Rose by Hélène Bessette with Elliott Bartlett of This Is Not a Poem on World Radio Paris

• Carrie Chappell on City of Muses in conversation with Jennifer Geraghty of Paris Underground Radio

• Carrie Chappell and Amanda Murphy in conversation with Marissa Davis of Four Way Review on the subject of their co-translation of Sandra Moussempès’ Cassandra at point-blank range

• Carrie Chappell in conversation with Krystal Kenney of La Vie Créative podcast about her Paris beginnings, poetry, and the making of Loving Tallulah Bankhead

• Carrie Chappell in conversation with Em J Parsley of Juke Joint Magazine on Tallulah Bankhead, the U.S. Southeast, and life in Paris

• Carrie Chappell in conversation with 826 New Orleans, formerly Big Class, about the founding of the Pizza Poetry Project for National Poetry Month

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