Ina Cariño holds an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University. Their poetry appears or is forthcoming in Diode, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Northwest, The Paris Review Daily, Waxwing, New England Review, and elsewhere. Ina is a Kundiman Fellow and a recipient of a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. They’re the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award for Feast, forthcoming from Alice James Books in 2023. Ina was also selected as one of four winners of the 2021 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest.