Tanya Olson and Doritt Carroll: New Books

Doritt Carroll is a native of Washington, DC.  She received her undergraduate and law degrees from Georgetown University. Doritt is the winner of the 2023 Stephen Meats Poetry Prize. She is also the winner of Harbor Review’s 2020 Laura Lee Washburn chapbook prize for her chapbook A Meditation on Purgatory. Her poems have appeared in Main Street Rag, RHINO, and SWWIM, among others. Her collection GLTTL STP was published by Brickhouse Books in 2013. Her chapbook Sorry You Are Not An Instant Winner was published in 2017 by Kattywompus. Her chapbook The Convert was published by Bunny and Crocodile Press in 2024. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.

Tanya Olson lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. Boyishly (YesYes Books 2013) received a 2014 American Book Award. She is the author of Stay (YesYes Books 2019) and, most recently Born Backwards (YesYes Books 2024). Olson has been awarded a Discovery/Boston Review prize and was named a Lambda Fellow by the Lambda Literary Foundation. Her poem “54 Prince” was included in Best American Poems. More information available at www.tanyaolson.com.

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