Carlina Duan is a writer-educator from Michigan. The author of the poetry collection I Wore My Blackest Hair (Little A, 2017), she currently teaches at the University of Michigan, where she is also a PhD student in the Joint Program of English and Education. Her second book of poems, Alien Miss, is forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin Press in the spring of 2021. Find her online at www.carlinaduan.com.