Carrie Olivia Adams lives in Chicago, where she is the poetry editor for Black Ocean and the Promotions and Marketing Communications Director for the University of Chicago Press. Her books include The Book of Marys and Glaciers (forthcoming from Tupelo Press), Be the thing of memory, Operating Theater, Forty-One Jane Doe’s, and Intervening Absence in addition to the chapbooks Proficiency Badges, Grapple, Overture in the Key of F, and A Useless Window. She writes the “Poetry & Biscuits” newsletter on Substack and curates a house reading series by the same name. When she’s not making poems, she’s making biscuits.

Praise

Her spare lyrics emphasize the role of the individual surrounded with the ineffable qualities of silence and empty space: ‘If there is a footnote to absence,’ she writes, ‘it is the beating heart.’

—Coldfront Magazine