Caitlin Scarano

Caitlin Scarano is a poet based in Bellingham, Washington. She holds an MFA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a PhD in English (creative writing) from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of two full-length poetry collections: Do Not Bring Him Water (Write Bloody, 2017) and The Necessity of Wildfire (Blair, 2022), selected by Ada Limón for the Wren Poetry Prize and winner of a 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award. She is a 2026-2027 Migration in Changing Climates Fellow (PLAYA, PRAx, and Spring Creek Project), and was a 2018 grantee of the NSF’s Antarctic Artists & Writers Program. She writes The State of Publishing Today, a monthly column for Chill Subs’ Write or Die. Caitlin offers one-on-one writing coaching and editing, and teaches through Writers.com and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Find her at caitlinscarano.com