Caroline Harper New

Caroline Harper New is the author of A History of Half-Birds , winner of the 2023 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry. She is a poet and visual artist from the Gulf Coast with a background in anthropology, and she holds an MFA in Writing from the University of Michigan. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review , Cincinnati Review , Palette Poetry , Southern Humanities Review , and Driftwood Press. She is winner of Palette Poetry's 2023 Love & Eros Prize, the Malahat...See more

Caroline Harper New is the author of A History of Half-Birds , winner of the 2023 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry. She is a poet and visual artist from the Gulf Coast with a background in anthropology, and she holds an MFA in Writing from the University of Michigan. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review , Cincinnati Review , Palette Poetry , Southern Humanities Review , and Driftwood Press. She is winner of Palette Poetry's 2023 Love & Eros Prize, the Malahat Review 's 2023 Open Season Award, the Cincinnati Review 's 2022 Robert and Adele Schiff Award, and Bellevue Literary Review 's 2022 John & Eileen Allman Prize for Poetry. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. See less