Hybrid: “What is the Name of Your Survival?” by Ina Cariño
About Ina Cariño
Ina Cariño holds an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University. Their poetry appears or is forthcoming in Guernica, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review Daily, Waxwing, New England Review, and elsewhere. Ina is a Kundiman fellow and a recipient of a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. They are the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award for Feast, forthcoming from Alice James Books in March 2023. Ina was also selected as one of four winners of the 2021 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest. In 2019, Ina founded a reading series, Indigena Collective, centering marginalized creatives in the community.