Cariño Wins Lucille Medwick Memorial Award

Alum Ina Cariño (BA English and Creative Writing Minor, ’16) received the 2025 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award for her poem, “What’s the First Word in ‘Illegal Immigrant’?”.

Cariño is a 2022 Whiting Award winner for poetry originally from the Philippines. Their work appears in the American Poetry Review, the Margins, Guernica, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Magazine, the Paris Review Daily, and the New England Review. She won the 2021 Alice James Award for Feast, published by Alice James Books in March 2023. Their forthcoming collection Reverse Requiem is slated for publication in April 2026 (Alice James Books).