Caroline Harper NewCaroline Harper New is the author of A History of Half-Birds, winner of the 2023 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry. She is a poet and visual artist from the Gulf Coast with a background in anthropology, and she holds an MFA in Writing fromthe University of Michigan. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Palette Poetry, Southern Humanities Review, and Driftwood Press. She is winner of Palette Poetry's 2023 Love & Eros Prize, the Malahat Review's 2023 Open Season Award, the Cincinnati Review's 2022 Robert and Adele Schiff Award, and Bellevue Literary Review's 2022 John & Eileen Allman Prize for Poetry. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.