Carolyn Oliver

Carolyn Oliver is the author of The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books, forthcoming 2024), Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press, 2022; selected by Matthew Olzmann for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize) and three chapbooks. Carolyn’s poems appear in Poetry Daily, The Massachusetts Review, Indiana Review, Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Image, Southern Indiana Review, At Length, and elsewhere; her fiction has appeared in Yalobusha Review, Tin House Online, SmokeLong Quarterly, Terrain.org, The South Carolina Review, Necessary Fiction, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net in both fiction and poetry, and her awards include the E. E. Cummings Prize from the NEPC, the Goldstein Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review, and the Frank O’Hara Prize from The Worcester Review, where she served as co-editor of Volume 42 and editor of Volumes 43, 44, and 45. Find her online: carolynoliver.net.