Caroline Goodwin, Writer and Poet

December 2026

Caroline Goodwin was born and raised in Alaska and holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia (1995). She is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Old Snow, White Sun (JackLeg Press, 2021) and Matanuska (Aquifer Press, Wales, UK, 2022). In 1999 she moved to California to attend Stanford as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry; she lives on the San Mateo Coast and teaches creative writing.