Carolyn Oliver writes poems, prose, and hybrid forms. She is the author of The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books, 2024) Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press, 2022; Agha Shahid Ali Prize for Poetry), and three chapbooks. Her third collection, Whale Garden, is forthcoming from River River Books in 2027. Her awards include the Goldstein Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review, the E. E. Cummings Prize from the NEPC, the Writer’s Block Prize in Poetry, and the Frank O’Hara Prize from The Worcester Review, where she later served as editor-in-chief. Carolyn was a 2023-24 Artist in Residence at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Born in Buffalo and raised in Ohio, she now lives in Massachusetts.
Carolyn Oliver 