Caroline Harper New

Caroline Harper New is the author of A History of Half-Birds, winner of the 2023 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry. She is a poet and artist from southern Georgia with a background in anthropology. Her work includes ecopoetic short films, painting exhibitions, children’s book illustrations, and ethnographic research in Madagascar. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, The Cincinnati Review, PRISM International, Bellevue Literary Review, Colorado Review, The Malahat Review, Palette Poetry, and elsewhere. She is winner of the 2022 Love & Eros Prize, 2023 Malahat Open Season Award, 2022 Robert and Adele Schiff Award, and 2022 John & Eileen Allman Prize for Poetry. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan. New lives in Ann Arbor, MI with her partner and their tailless tortie cat.