Carlie Hoffman is a writer, literary translator, scholar and the author of three collections of poetry, One More World Like This World (Four Way Books, Spring 2025), a Library Journal 2025 “Title to Watch,” When There Was Light (Four Way Books, 2023), winner of the National Jewish Book Award, and This Alaska (Four Way Books, 2021), winner of the Northern California Publishers and Authors Gold Award in Poetry and a finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award. She is the translator from German of Paul Celan’s cousin, Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger’s Song of the Yellow Asters (World Poetry Books / March 2026), poems translated and contributed to the monograph White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph (Atelier Éditions, in collaboration with Harvard University’s Busch-Reisinger Museum), and is completing the translations of the essential poems of Rose Ausländer (forthcoming).
A 2025-26 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture fellow, Hoffman’s honors include a “Discovery” / Boston Review prize from the 92NY Unterberg Poetry Center, an Amy Award from Poets & Writers, as well as fellowships and grants from NYSCA/NYFA, the Goethe-Institut, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Convent Arts at Cape May Point Science Center, Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, Columbia University, and the State University of New York.
Hoffman earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, a master’s in Literary Translation from the City University of New York—Queens College, and a BA in Literature from Ramapo College of New Jersey and her work has been featured in Poetry, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day program, Los Angeles Review of Books, the Poetry Society of America, the Slowdown, and elsewhere.
Hoffman is the founder and editorial director of Orange Editions/Small Orange Journal, where she curates, edits, and produces Orange Import, a hand bound, letterpress print translation series, as well as the print interview series Small Orange Conversations with Poets. She has taught at Columbia University, NYU, and the Fashion Institute of Technology and was Lecturer of Creative Writing at the State University of New York at Purchase College. She is Assistant Director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) in New York City.