Carolina Ebeid was born in West New York, NJ and is the author of You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior (Noemi Press). She holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers and is pursuing a PhD in creative writing at the University of Denver. She is a teacher at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop and has won fellowships from CantoMundo, the Stadler Center for Poetry, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Recent work appears in Poetry, PEN America, jubilat and American Poetry Review. She helps edit poetry at The Rumpus.