Caroline M. Mar
Caroline M. Mar is the great-granddaughter of a railroad laborer and the author of Special Education (Texas Review Press) and the chapbook Dream of the Lake (Bull City Press). Carrie received her MFA from Warren Wilson and teaches high school health education in her hometown of San Francisco. She has been granted residencies at Hedgebrook, Ragdale, and Storyknife, among others, and her writing has most recently appeared in West Trade Review and Poetry Northwest.
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Selected publications
“Intelligible,” wildness 29 (April 2022)
“Dream of the Lake” and “Naming,” Bridges Review (Winter 2022)
“Tarot,” Storyscape (February 2020)
“Cold Shock” cycle: six poems, Anomaly 28 (April 2019)
“Chinese Girl” and “Uniform,” Storyscape 19 (January 2018)
“After the Pulse Orlando Shooting, My Wife Asks if We Can Eat at Chick-Fil-A,” New England Review Vol. 38 No. 3 (2017): 42
Three Poems (“The Ray,” “The Bear,” and “Post-racial Ghazal,”), Four Way Review (April 2016)
“The Bees,” Evening Will Come 59 on The Volta (November 2015)
SELECTED INTERVIEWS & conversations
New Arrivals: A pocket-sized book tour, KALW (October 2022)
An Evening with Tommye Blount and Carrie Mar, Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College (January 2021)
Interview, Eastwind Ezine (January 2020)
Interview and four poems, Connotation Press: An Online Artifact (March 2018)