Ina Cariño

Ina Cariño is a Filipinx American poet. They are the winner of a 2022 Whiting Award for poetry, and the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award for their first poetry collection Feast, published by Alice James Books in March 2023.

Biography Cariño has an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University. They also have a BA in English literature with a minor in music performance on the violin from East Carolina University.

A Kundiman fellow, their work has appeared in literary journals such as Guernica, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review Daily, and elsewhere.

In 2019, Cariño founded a poetry reading series called Indigena Collective, a platform that aims to center marginalized creatives in the NC community and beyond.

Publications Feast (Alice James Books, forthcoming 2026)

Awards and honors 2025 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award 2022 George Bogin Memorial Award 2022 Whiting Award for poetry 2021 Alice James Award 2021 92Y Discovery Contest winner