Carol Potter is an American poet and professor known for writing the book Some Slow Bees.
[1] She is the 2014 winner of the FIELD Poetry Prize from Oberlin College Press for her book, Some Slow Bees.
Her previous collection of poems is Otherwise Obedient (Red Hen Press, 2007), which was a 2008 Lambda Literary Award finalist.
She was also Writer-in-Residence at Thurber House in 2003, and Visiting Poet at the Indiana University MFA Program (2003–2004).
Potter taught for 17 years at Holyoke Community College, currently teaches in the MFA program at Antioch University in Los Angeles,[4] as well as at the Community College of Vermont in Newport, and lives in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom.