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Carlie Hoffman

Carlie Hoffman is the author of the poetry collections One More World Like This World (Four Way Books, 2025); 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 & Authors Gold Award in Poetry as well as a finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award. Hoffman is the translator from the German of both Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger’s Blütenlese (World Poetry Books, 2026) and White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph (Atelier Éditions, 2025), as well as the poems of Rose Ausländer. Hoffman’s other honors include a 92NY “Discovery” / Boston Review prize and a Poets & Writers Amy Award. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Small Orange Journal.

One More World Like This World

When There Was Light

This Alaska