publications
poems
“The Mermaids Have Gone Extinct.” Anthropology & Humanism. 2026.
“Bouclage.” Anthropology & Humanism. 2026.
“Brackish Beginnings.” Anthropology & Humanism. 2026.
“The Museum of Natural History.” North American Review. 2026. (print only)
“Love Poem for My Bird Dog.” PoetTreeTown. 2026.
“The Ornithologist.” Only Poems. 2026.
“The Aquariums Keep Exploding.” Southern Humanities Review (58.3). 2025. (print only)
“My Love for Geography is an Act of Mourning.” The Massachusetts Review. 2025.
“Loom.” The Massachusetts Review. 2025. (print only)
“Fieldnotes on Juniper.” PoetTreeTown. 2025.
“Five Mile Swamp Fire.” Hood of Bone (2). 2024.
“Run Away!” Hood of Bone (2). 2024.
“Salt Lick.” Colorado Review (51.1). 2024. (print only)
“If I Teach Tomatoes to Climb Stalagmites, I Can Call This Cave a Garden.” Colorado Review (51.1). 2024. (print only)
“Auguries by Mouth.” PoetTreeTown. 2024.
“Driving Through Dunedin.” Driftwood Press 2024 Anthology. 2024. (print only)
“The Bathtub.” Driftwood Press 2024 Anthology. 2024. (print only)
“Fieldnotes on the Red-Bellied Woodpecker.” Litbowl. 2024.
“Patients Regain Song Before Speech.” Washington Post, Book World Newsletter (1/12/24). 2024.
“Notes on Devotion.” Cincinnati Review (20.1). & Poetry Foundation. 2023/2024.
“Interview with a Cervidologist.” Malahat Review (222). 2023.
“Elk Lake.” Palette Poetry. 2023.
“Moon Song for My Mother.” San Diego Annual Review. 2023. (+ reading)
“Etymology of Chlorophyll.” Bellevue Literary Review (44). 2023.
“Have You Missed the Color Red?” Driftwood Press 2023 Anthology. 2023. (print only)
“Widdershins.” American Poetry Review (51.6). 2022.
“Taxonomy: Bird.” Ruminate (62.1). 2022.
“The Archaeology Magazine.” PRISM International (59.4). 2021. (print only)
“Phantom Cry Phenomenon.” Another New Calligraphy (6). 2021.
“How Women Smell Blood.” Southern Humanities Review (54.4). 2021. (print only)
“They Banned Abortion in Georgia.” The Racket (2.31). 2020.
“M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I.” Louisiana’s Best Emerging Poets. 2018. (print only)
“Snake Children.” Louisiana’s Best Emerging Poets. 2018. (print only)
“Sweetened & Steeped I-IV.” Libertas Magazine (23.1). 2016.
nonfiction
“Gray.” North Carolina’s Best Emerging Writers. 2019. (print only)
“Attapulgus.” Libertas Magazine (23.1). 2016.
art
“XI: [half-mouths all at once].” Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape (11). 2023.
“XIV: [a doll half as dazzling].” Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape (11). 2023.
“VII: [ways to be lonely].” Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape (11). 2023.
awards
in-progress collection
2026 Jake Adam York Prize (semifinalist), Copper Nickel, judged by Patricia Smith
2026 Meader Family Award, University of Michigan
2026 Theodore Roethke Prize (finalist), University of Michigan
2025 Hopwoods Graduate Poetry Prize, University of Michigan, judged by Franny Choi & Craig Santos Perez
2025 Helen S. and John Wagner Prize, University of Michigan
book: if i call this cave a garden
2025 Vinyl 45 Chapbook Prize, YesYes Books
2025 Theodore Roethke Prize (finalist), University of Michigan
2024 Burnside Review Chapbook Contest (finalist), Burnside Review
2024 Cow Creek Chapbook Prize (finalist), Pittsburgh State University
2024 Diode Chapbook Contest (finalist), Diode Editions
2024 Black River Chapbook Competition Contest (semifinalist), Black Lawrence Press
2024 Nine Syllables Press Chapbook Contest (semifinalist), Nine Syllables Press
2022 Adrift Chapbook Award (finalist), Driftwood Press
2022 Theodore Roethke Prize (finalist), University of Michigan
2021 Theodore Roethke Prize (finalist), University of Michigan
book: a history of half-birds
2025 Housatonic Book Award, Western Connecticut State University
2025 Levis Reading Prize (semifinalist), Virginian Commonwealth University
2024 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, Milkweed Editions
2022 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Award (semifinalist), Persea Books
2022 Meader Family Award, University of Michigan
poems
2026 Anne Halley Poetry Prize, The Massachusetts Review
poem: “My Love for Geography is an Act of Mourning”
2026 James Hearst Poetry Prize (honorable mention), North American Review
poem: “The Museum of Natural History”
2026 Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize (finalist), Only Poems
poem: “The Ornithologist”
2025 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize (runner-up), Southern Humanities Review, judged by Nicole Sealey
poem: “The Aquariums Keep Exploding”
2024 Pushcart Prize Nominee, Driftwood Press
poem: “Driving Through Dunedin”
2023 Driftwood In-House Poem Contest, Driftwood Press
poem: “The Bathtub”
2023 Adrienne Rich Award (semifinalist), Beloit Poetry Journal, judged by Marie Howe
poem: “The Elephant Mother”
2022 Robert & Adele Schiff Award Winner, Cincinnati Review, judged by Rebecca Lindenberg
poem: “Notes on Devotion”
2023 Malahat Open Season Award, Malahat Review, judged by Ki’en Debicki
poem: “Interview with a Cervidologist”
2023 Love & Eros Prize, (3rd place), Palette Poetry, judged by Carl Phillips
poem: “Elk Lake”
2022 Steve Kowit Poetry Prize (2nd place runner-up), San Diego Poetry Annual, judged by Kim Addonizio
poem: “Moon Song for My Mother”
2022 John & Eileen Allman Prize for Poetry, Bellevue Literary Reviw, judged by Phillip B. William
poem: “Etymology of Chlorophyll”
2021 New Millennium Writing Awards (finalist), New Millennium Writing
poem: “How to Teach a Boy from Queens to Swim”
2021 Witness Literary Awards (finalist), Black Mountain Review, judged by Phillip B. Williams
poem: “The Archaeology Magazine”
2021 Sappho Poetry Prize (finalist), Palette Poetry, judged by Maggie Smith
poem: “How I Became a Mother”
2021 Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize, University of Michigan, judged by Tariq Luthun and Mairead Small Staid
poem: “Spontaneous Generation, as Spiritual Practice”
2016 Vereen Bell Memorial Award, Davidson College, judged by Tony Earley
poem: “Sweetened & Steeped I-IV”
2015 Vereen Bell Memorial Award, Davidson College, judged by A. Van Jordan
poem: “When God Created the Animals”
nonfiction
2025 Hopwoods Graduate Nonfiction Prize (4th place), University of Michigan, judged by Kristi Coulter & Sarah Viren
nonfiction: “Ostreidae”
2017 Charles E. Lloyd Winner, Davidson College, judged by Cynthia Hogue
nonfiction: “Lake Bird”
2016 Charles E. Lloyd Winner, Davidson College, judged by Randy Fertel
nonfiction: “Attapulgus”
2014 R. Windley Hall Award, Davidson College, judged by Philip Gerard
nonfiction: “Blackwater”
drama
2022 Hopwood Prize in Drama (2nd place), University of Michigan, judged by Marisa Carr and Khadijah Queen
play: Albeit, Amelia
ethnographic writing
2025 Ethnographic Poetry Contest (2nd place), Society for Humanistic Anthropology
poetry: “Brackish Beginnings,” “The Mermaids Have Gone Extinct,” & “Bouclage”
2025 Ethnographic Prose Contest (3rd place), Society for Humanistic Anthropology
prose: “Ostreidae”
2017 Top Undergraduate Research Paper, Southern Anthropological Society
article: “Of Silver, of Scars: The Silence of Historical Trauma among the Antankarana of Northern Madagascar”
2017: Franz Boas Award for Highest Achieving Anthropology Student, Davidson College
press
Interview: The Art of Seeing the World, with Truly Render
Discover Rackham, April 2025
Review: Learning ‘how / to make a house of our ruin’: A Review of Caroline Harper New’s A History of Half-Birds, by Matt Del Busto
Michigan Quarterly Review, April 2024
Interview: U-M Writer-in-Residence, Caroline Harper New’s Poetry Book Unfolds Time and Explores Human-Animal Interplay, with Martha Stuit
Pulp, Feb 2024
Review: Counterclockwise: Mythical Connotations in the Poems of A History of Half-Birds by Caroline Harper New, by Mikal Wix
West Trade Review, Jan 2024
Review: A History of Half Birds, by Rebecca Morgan Frank
Poetry Foundation, Jan 2024
Interview: Field Notes: David Eso in Conversation with Caroline Harper New
Malahat Review, Spring 2023
Interview: The Multi-Artist: Caroline Harper New, with Haley Crigger
Cincinnati Review, Winter 2023
Interview: BLR Spring 2023 Reading, with Abba Belgraves
Bellevue Literary Review, Spring 2023
Press: Caroline Harper New Wins the 2023 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry
Milkweed Editions, Spring 2023
Interview: “Have You Missed the Color Red?” with Jerrod Schwarz
Driftwood Press, 2023 Anthology
Press: “Moon Song for My Mother”: 2nd Runner-Up, Chosen by Kim Addonizio
San Diego Annual Review, Reading Series, 2022
Featured International Guest Poet
Madagaslam Poetry Festival, Antananarivo, 2019
Choreography ft. “When God Created the Animals”
Annual Mid-Atlantic North Region Conference, American College Dance Association
University of Maryland, 2017
editorial
‘The Hispanic Invasion of Texas’ by Maria Esquina
Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2022
‘At the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River’ by Erin Slaughter
Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2021
Dangerously Close to Living: A Review of Ghost Of by Diana Khoi Nguyen
Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2021
