Carlie Hoffman is the author of two collections of poetry, When There Was Light (Four Way Books, Spring 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. Carlie’s honors include a “Discovery” / Boston Review prize from the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center and a Poets & Writers Amy Award. She is a recipient of the 2023 Loose Translation Prize for her translation of Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger’s Blütenlese (forthcoming with Hanging Loose Press) and is the translator of the monograph artbook Weiße Schatten / White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph (Edited by Lynette Roth, Atelier Éditions, Fall 2023). Her third poetry collection is forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2025.

Carlie’s poetry, translations, fiction, reviews and critical writing have been published or are forthcoming in POETRY, Kenyon Review, Poetry Daily, Los Angeles Review of Books, Columbia Journal, Jewish Currents, Boston Review, New England Review, and many other publications.

Carlie 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 and NYU, and is currently a Lecturer of Creative Writing at the State University of New York at Purchase. She lives in New York City.