Carlina Duan is the author of the poetry collections I Wore My Blackest Hair and Alien Miss . Her poems have appeared in POETRY Magazine, Narrative Magazine, Poets.org, The Rumpus, and other publications. Carlina’s writing has been supported with residencies and awards from Tin House, the Academy of American Poets, the U.S. Fulbright Program, Signal Fire Arts, the Hopwood Program, and Willapa Bay AiR. Carlina received her M.F.A. in Poetry from Vanderbilt University. She is currently a doctoral student in the University of Michigan’s Joint Program in English and Education, where she studies community-engaged writing and documentary poetics.