_______________________________________
Carole Simmons Oles
M.A. in English,
UC Berkeley, 1960

Professor,
CSU, Chico: Poetry

Carole Simmons Oles was born in New York City and is a graduate of Queens College and The University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of six books of poetry: The Lonliness Factor (Texas Tech University Press, in cooperation with Associated Writing Programs), Quarry (University of Utah Press), Night Watches: Inventions on the Life of Maria Mitchell (Alice James Books), The Deed (Louisiana State University Press), Stunts (GreenTower Press), and Sympathetic Systems.

Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Field, The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, The Women’s Review of Books, and other magazines. Among her prizes received are a National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Poetry, a Pushcart Prize, a Writer’s Choice Award, the Claytor, Winner, and Lake prizes from the Poetry Society of America, and the Prairie Schooner poetry prize. Professor of English at California State University, Chico, Ms. Oles has also taught at The University of Massachusetts at Boston, Hollins College, and Sweet Briar College, where she was Banister Writer-in-Residence. She has been on the staff of Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Bennington Writers’ Workshops, and Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, and has taught regularly at the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College in Vermont. Ms. Oles is a former member of the Board of Directors of Associated Writing Programs.

Return to Faculty and Advising Page