Ina Cariño


Ina Cariño is a Filipinx American poet. They are the winner of a 2022 Whiting Award for poetry, and the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award for their first poetry collection Feast, published by Alice James Books in March 2023.
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Biography

Cariño has an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University. They also have a BA in English literature with a minor in music performance on the violin from East Carolina University.
A Kundiman fellow, their work has appeared in literary journals such as Guernica, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review Daily, and elsewhere.
In 2019, Cariño founded a poetry reading series called Indigena Collective, a platform that aims to center marginalized creatives in the NC community and beyond.

Publications

Feast
  • ''Reverse Requiem''

Awards and honors