Caitlin Scarano

Caitlin Scarano is a writer based in Bellingham, Washington. She holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an MFA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her second full length collection of poems, THE NECESSITY OF WILDFIRE, was selected by Ada Limón as the winner of the Wren Poetry Prize and recently won a 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award. Her work has appeared in Granta, Carve, Prairie Schooner, and Colorado Review. You can find her at caitlinscarano.com