Caroline White

Caroline White is a poet and musician living in Greensboro, NC and a graduate of UNC Greensboro’s MFA program, where she served as poetry editor for The Greensboro Review.

Her work has won the Prime Number’s Magazine poetry contest, the Crosswinds Poetry Journal poetry contest, New Ohio Review’s Ellis Prize for Poetry, and was a finalist for the Tomaž Šalamun Prize and the Lascaux Prize in Poetry. She was the winner of the Atlanta Review’s International Merit Award for 2025 and the W.B. Yeats Prize in Poetry. She was a finalist for the John Updike Fellowship and the Poetry Foundation Visiting Teaching Award, and her chapbook “Inventing Zero” was a finalist for The Connecticut River Review’s Contest in Experimental Poetry, the Slate Roof Press’ Chapbook Award, and the Button Poetry Chapbook Contest. Her work appears in Cherry Tree, Black Warrior Review, Pangyrus, Third Coast, Boulevard Magazine, New Ohio Review, Poetry Northwest, and others.

Caroline currently works as a lecturer in English at UNC Greensboro.