Ina Cariño
American poet
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Ina Cariño is a Filipinx American poet.[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 their first poetry collection Feast,[7] published by Alice James Books in March 2023.[8]
Biography
Cariño has an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University.[9] They also have a BA in English literature with a minor in music performance on the violin from East Carolina University.
A Kundiman fellow,[10] their work has appeared in literary journals such as Guernica,[11] Poetry Magazine,[12] The Paris Review Daily,[13] and elsewhere.
In 2019, Cariño founded a poetry reading series called Indigena Collective,[14] a platform that aims to center marginalized creatives in the NC community and beyond.[15]
