Carlie Hoffman

Carlie Hoffman is the author of When There Was Light (Four Way Books, 2023), winner of a National Jewish Book Award, and This Alaska (Four Way Books, 2021), winner of a Northern California Publishers and Authors Gold Award in Poetry and a finalist for a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award. Hoffman’s honors include a Discovery/Boston Review prize from the 92NY Unterberg Poetry Center and a Poets & Writers Amy Award. She is the translator from German of the monograph artbook Weiße Schatten / White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph, edited by Lynette Roth (Atelier Éditions, 2024).

Hoffman’s work has been published in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, The Kenyon Review, The Slowdown, Poetry Daily, Los Angeles Review of Books, Jewish Currents, Boston Review, New England Review, and other publications.

Hoffman is the founding editor and editor-in-chief of Small Orange Journal, where she curates and edits the interview series Small Orange Conversations with Poets. She has taught at Columbia University, NYU, and the State University of New York at Purchase, where she was awarded a 2024 Jewish Studies Faculty Research Award. She is from New Jersey.