Carine Topal, a transplanted New Yorker, holds an MA from New York University. She was twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, awarded residencies in the U.S. and abroad, is the recipient of numerous poetry awards and honors, including the 2007 Robert G. Cohn Prose Poetry Award and the Briar Cliff Poetry Award. Her chapbook, “Tattooed,” won the Palettes and Quills Poetry Chapbook Contest. Topal’s 5th collection, “In Order of Disappearance,” was published by the Pacific Coast Poetry Series in 2018. She lives in the desert and by the sea and leads poetry and memoir workshops.
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