Carolyn Oliver, Night Ocean

Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Jennifer Jean

Carolyn Oliver is the author of The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books, forthcoming 2024), Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press, 2022; selected for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry), and three chapbooks. Her poems appear in The Massachusetts ReviewCopper NickelPoetry DailyShenandoahBeloit Poetry JournalConsequenceSouthern Indiana ReviewAt LengthPlume, and elsewhere. She is a past recipient of the NEPC’s E. E. Cummings award, and her first two chapbooks, Mirror Factory and Dearling, also received honorable mentions for the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize. A 2023-2024 Artist in Residence at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Carolyn lives with her family in Worcester. Her website is carolynoliver.net.