Carlina Duan

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 (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021). Her poems have been published in POETRY, 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 is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Joint Program in English and Education, and serves as Poetry Editor for Michigan Quarterly Review.

In 2023, Carlina was awarded a Moscow Prize for Excellence in Teaching English Composition.