About
Carlina Duan is a poet, scholar and educator. She is the author of the poetry collections I WORE MY BLACKEST HAIR (Little A, 2017) and Alien Miss (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, forthcoming 2021). Her poems have been featured in Poets.org, Narrative Magazine, The Rumpus, and Gulf Coast, among other places. Carlina is the recipient of a Fulbright teaching grant as well as an Academy of American Poets Prize. She holds a B.A. in Honors English & Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, and an M.F.A. in Poetry from Vanderbilt University. Carlina is currently a Ph.D. student in the Joint Program in English and Education. Her research focuses on creative writing pedagogies, food narratives, and models of community-engaged education for literary arts.
