Caroline Harper New

Writer & Artist

New is the author of A History of Half-Birds (Milkweed Editions, 2024) winner of the Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry. Her creative work is rooted in the precarious landscape of the Gulf Coast, where she reckons with love’s potential for violence in the human, animal, and natural worlds. Her practice includes poetry, nonfiction, sculpture, painting, short film, translation, and multimedia collaboration.

New holds an M.F.A. in Poetry and is currently a Ph.D. student in Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Her research examines how ecological imagination is formed at the intersections of place attachment, narrative-making, and performance, and how this impacts human-environment relationships.

She has enjoyed teaching through the University of Michigan, Dzanc Press, Gilliam Writers Group, and others. See teaching and editing services here.