Ina Cariño

[1][2] They are the winner of a 2022 Whiting Award for poetry,[3][4][5] and the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award[6] for her first poetry collection Feast,[7] published by Alice James Books in March 2023.

[8] Cariño has an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University.

[9] She has a BA in English literature with a minor in music performance on the violin from East Carolina University.

Their work has appeared in literary journals such as Guernica,[10] Poetry Magazine,[11] The Paris Review Daily,[12] and elsewhere.

In 2019, Cariño founded a poetry reading series called Indigena Collective,[13] a platform that aims to center marginalized creatives in the NC community and beyond.