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.^[1] Norton published his second collection, Disease of Kings, in 2023.^[2][3]

Anders Carlson-Wee
Carlson-Wee Reading at The Frost Place in Franconia, NH in 2015.
Born	(1985-05-18) May 18, 1985 (age 40) Minneapolis, Minnesota
Education	Fairhaven College Vanderbilt University
Genre	Poetry
Notable works	Disease of Kings The Low Passions
Website
www.anderscarlsonwee.com

Personal life

Carlson-Wee was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota^[4] to Lutheran pastor parents, and grew up in Moorhead, Minnesota.^[5][6] He is a former professional rollerblader,^[7] and has written extensively about dumpster diving,^[8] as well as hopping freight trains and traveling the country.^[9] He has dyslexia.^[10][11]

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.^[12][13]

His poems have been published in various journals and magazines including The Paris Review,^[14] Harvard Review,^[15] BuzzFeed,^[16] The American Poetry Review,^[17] Ploughshares,^[18] and Virginia Quarterly Review.^[19]

Anders is co-director of the poetry film Riding the Highline, which has won numerous prizes at film festivals.^[20]

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