Carlina Duan

Carlina Duan is a poet, educator, and scholar. She is the author of I Wore My Blackest Hair (Little A, 2017) and Alien Miss (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021), a finalist for the 2020 Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prize and the 2022 Midwest Book Award for Poetry. Duan holds an MFA from Vanderbilt University and a PhD from the University of Michigan. In addition to her poetic work, Duan writes scholarship on documentary poetics and aesthetics. 

Duan’s poems have appeared on Poets.org and in The Kenyon Review, The Slowdown, and other publications. A finalist for a 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, Duan has received support for her work from Kundiman, Hedgebrook, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She teaches poetry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.