Cariño Wins Alice James Award

Alum Ina Cariño (BA English and Creative Writing Minor, ’16) has won the 2021 Alice James Award for their manuscript, FEAST. Cariño’s book of poetry will be published by Alice James Books in 2023.

Cariño is a queer Filipinx writer who was born in the Philippines. Their work appears in Waxwing, New England Review, The Oxford Review of Books, and Tupelo Quarterly, among other journals. They hold an MFA in creative writing from NC State and were a 2019 Kundiman fellow. In 2019, they founded Indigena Collective, a reading series and project centering othered and underrepresented creatives in the NC community. Cariño’s manuscript FEAST was a finalist for the 2019 Jake Adam York Prize.

Find out more about Cariño at her website.

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