Assistant Professor / Walker Percy Fellow
2024, Ph.D., Joint Program in English and Education, University of Michigan
2019, M.F.A., Creative Writing (Poetry), Vanderbilt University
2015, B.A., English and Creative Writing, University of Michigan
Bio
Carlina Duan is a poet, educator, and scholar. She is the author of I Wore My Blackest Hair (Little A, 2017); and Alien Miss (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2021), a finalist for the Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prize and the Midwest Book Awards.
Carlina received her M.F.A. in Poetry from Vanderbilt University, and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan’s Joint Program in English and Education, where she was a 2023-2024 David and Mary Hunting Fellow at the Institute for Humanities, and the former Poetry Editor for Michigan Quarterly Review. Carlina is deeply committed to community-engaged arts education, and has joyfully served as a teaching artist for poetry projects such as Staying Power; Room Project; and MTSU Write. Her scholarly work focuses on documentary poetics and aesthetics, archival innovations, reading poetry, and Asian American literature.
Carlina’s recent poems appear in POETRY, Narrative Magazine, Poets.org, The Kenyon Review, Poetry Daily, The Slowdown Show, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of awards and artist residencies from Tin House, the Academy of American Poets, the U.S. Fulbright Program, Hedgebrook, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Willapa Bay AiR, Lighthouse Works, Good Hart Artist Residency, and other places. In addition to her textual poems, Carlina builds a material/visual poetic practice, and her broadsides and poem-videos have been exhibited at the Crooked Tree Arts Center, Hirschl & Adler, and the XR: XF: Extended Realities, Extended Feminisms show.
Carlina teaches poetry at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where she is an Assistant Professor in the department of English & Comparative Literature, and Walker Percy Fellow in Creative Writing.
To read more, visit my websitePublications:
Books:
- Alien Miss (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021)
- I Wore My Blackest Hair (Little A, 2017)
Selected Poems:
- “After She Mispronounces My Name for the Fourth Time” (The Kenyon Review, 2023)
- “Blades of Grace” (POETRY Magazine, 2022)
- “Possible” (Poetry Daily, 2021)
Teaching Awards
- Moscow Prize for Excellence in Teaching Writing and Composition, University of Michigan (2023)
Awards
- Lighthouse Works Fellowship, 2023
- Hedgebrook Writing Residency, 2023
- Good Hart Artist Residency and Harbor Springs Book Festival Feature, 2022
- Barbara Deming Award for Creative Nonfiction, 2023
- Hopwood Poetry Award, 2021
- Willapa Bay Artist Residency, 2021
- Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize, 2021
- Academy of American Poets 1st Place Prize, Vanderbilt University, 2019
- Tin House Writing Residency, 2019
- Narrative Magazine 30 Below Literary Contest, 1st Place Winner, 2017
Courses Taught:
- ENG 131 – Introduction to Poetry Writing
- ENG 407 – Advanced Poetry Writing