Charlotte Pence

Charlotte Pence’s new book of poems, Code, received the 2020 Book of the Year award from
Alabama Poetry Society and was a finalist for Foreword Reviews Indie Poetry Book of 2020.
Code details not only the life cycle of birth and death, but also the means of this cycle: DNA
itself. Her first book of poems, Many Small Fires (Black Lawrence Press, 2015), won Foreword
Reviews’ silver medal award in poetry. Both poetry books weave together personal experience
and scientific exploration. She is also the author of two award-winning poetry chapbooks and the
editor of The Poetics of American Song Lyrics. Her poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction have
recently been published in Harvard Review, Poetry, Sewanee Review, Southern Review, and
Brevity. A graduate of Emerson College (MFA) and the University of Tennessee (PhD), she is
now the director of the Stokes Center for Creative Writing at University of South Alabama.