Black and white portrait of a woman with medium-length hair, wearing a checkered shirt, sitting indoors with a blurred background, leaning forward with her hand near her mouth.
A close-up of a white moth with delicate wings spread open, showing subtle grayish-brown markings.
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Ina Cariño is a writer and musician originally from the Philippines—an immigrant and the child of immigrants. A Kundiman fellow, they won a 2022 Whiting Award for poetry following the selection of their debut collection Feast for the 2021 Alice James Award. Ina’s work appears in The American Poetry Review, The Margins, Guernica, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Magazine, New England Review, and elsewhere. Their most recent collection, Reverse Requiem, was published by Alice James Books in April 2026.