Emily Carr has been named a finalist in seven national book contests, including the 2011 National Poetry Series. Her second collection, 13 Ways of Happily: Books 1 and 2, was chosen by Cole Swensen as the winner of the 2009 New Measures Poetry Prize. Carr has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Jack Kerouac House, Writers in the Heartland, and Camac Centre d’Art. She is currently the director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Oregon State University-Cascades.