Anders Carlson-Wee
Anders Carlson-Wee is an American poet. His first collection, The Low Passions, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2019. Norton will publish his second collection, Disease of Kings, in 2023. Personal life Carlson-Wee was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Lutheran pastor parents, and grew up in Moorhead, Minnesota. He is a former professional rollerblader, and has written extensively about hopping freight trains and traveling the country. He has dyslexia. He has two brothers: poet and filmmaker Kai Carlson-Wee and entrepreneur Olaf Carlson-Wee. Career Carlson-Wee studied at Fairhaven College of Western Washington University before earning his MFA at Vanderbilt University. His poems have been published in various journals and magazines including The Paris Review, Harvard Review, BuzzFeed, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Anders is co-director of the poetry film Riding the Highline, which has won numerous prizes at film festivals. Awards and fellowships National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Poetry International Prize McKnight Artist Fellowship Frost Place Chapbook Prize Publications Disease of Kings, W. W. Norton & Company, 2023 The Low Passions, W. W. Norton & Company, 2019 Two Headed Boy with Kai Carlson-Wee, Organic Weapon Arts, 2016 Mercy Songs with Kai Carlson-Wee, Diode Editions, 2016 Dynamite, Bull City Press, 2015 References External links 1985 births American male poets Poets from Minnesota Writers from Minneapolis Writers from Minnesota Living people 21st-century American poets 21st-century American male writers Writers with dyslexia American writers with disabilities Poets with disabilities