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 Review, Copper Nickel, Poetry Daily, Shenandoah, Beloit Poetry Journal, Consequence, Southern Indiana Review, At Length, Plume, 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.