Carlie Hoffman '19 has been awarded the Mid Atlantic Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. As part of the fellowship, Hoffman will be awarded a $19.5 grant to support her work.
A New Jersey native, Hoffman was particularly honored to receive the fellowship. She shared on her Instagram, “Thank you to the garden state for this gift supporting my creative prose. Gratitude to this state where I grew up, went to community college, then state college, wrote my first book of poems on waitressing notepads, where I teach writing in the same classrooms I stared out the window to daydream and wrote in the margins of my notebooks during lectures, and a lot more. Man, I love reading and writing.”
Hoffman is the author of three collections of poetry, One More World Like This World, a Library Journal 2025 “Title to Watch,” When There Was Light, winner of the National Jewish Book Award, and This Alaska, winner of the Northern California Publishers and Authors Gold Award in Poetry and a finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award. She is the translator from German of Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger’s Song of the Yellow Asters, the monograph artbook White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph in collaboration with Harvard’s Busch-Reisinger Museum, and is completing the translations of the essential poems of Rose Ausländer (forthcoming). Hoffman is the founding editor and editorial director of Orange Editions/Small Orange Journal, where she curates, edits, and produces Orange Import, a hand bound, letterpress chapbook translation series, as well as the interview series Small Orange Conversations with Poets.
